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Sunday, December 7, 2003

Holiday Trivia: Xmas
Because I'm a complete nerd, and I likes to spread useless knowledge, I'm going to give an explaination I just learned, on the abbreviation of the word "Christmas" as "X-mas."

Some believe "X-mas" is used so that it won't offend non-christians when people talk about Christmas. Also, it's a lot quicker to write. Some believe the X is used because it resembles a cross, an important symbol in Christianity. Well, it's none of these.

When "Christ" is written in the classic Greek alphabet, the letter "Chi" (pronounced "chai" or "chy") is the first used. Chi, the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet, resembles the Roman alphabet's (our alphabet's) letter "X." In fact, they look exactly alike.

Basically, the letter "Chi" (that looks like an X), is used to abbreviate the word "Christ." So instead of Christ-mas, the word can be shortened with the letter Chi (X-mas).

Yeah. So X is basically Greek for "Christ." Or more correctly, X is the Greek abbreviation for Christ.

Imagine naming your daughter Xina or Xena, and telling everyone it was short for Christina and has nothing to do with the warrior princess.

Maybe I'll name my son Christian, but spell it X-i-a-n. But then everyone would call him Zeon....

You know, I think Jesus is the only person who can sign his name with just an "X" and it'll actually be his name.

Look out for more useless holiday trivia in the coming days.

Much Love
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