Today it'll be ten years since I started coming here. As you may gather from the title of this post, the sounds we use to make language intrigue me more often than...not. It's good to see all those who, even after some trying times, are still aound (some even longer than I) - Jackie, Faldage, Tsuwm, Wolfie, zmjezhd (that's the "hd" version of zmjez), BranShea and the Buffalo... I stop in occasionally and will continue 2 do so. Merry times 4 everyone!
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU TOO, FROM A RELATIVE NEWBIE.
zmjezhd (that's the "hd" version of zmjez
I'm Android-ready, too ... Happy Xmas & Joyful New year!
Xmas is such a brilliant word is it not? The X comes from the greek for Christ and the mass is, well, mass. The amount of people I know who get annoyed about it and then, once explained, bluster around and sulk. Because, in fact
xmas has been around a very long time...possibly longer than Christmas (although you'll have to check that) oh the joy of greek
Agreed. Chi: first letter of Christos.
Merry Christmas bexter. Hope the week is improving.
The X comes from the greek for Christ and the mass is, well, mass. The amount of people I know who get annoyed about it and then, once explained, bluster around and sulk.
The ignorant are often quick to being annoyed. I used to pronounce Xmas exmuss, but now I say chi-rho mess. And does anybody know if the H. in "Jesus H. Christ" (usually attributed to Sam Clemens) is really from the eta in the abbreviation IHC XPC?
And does anybody know if the H. in "Jesus H. Christ" (usually attributed to Sam Clemens) is really from the eta in the abbreviation IHC XPC?
I always thought it stood for
haploid.
In our church, when I was a boy, on the front of the
altarpiece there was IHS.
Xmas is such a brilliant word is it not? The X comes from the greek for Christ and the mass is, well, mass. The amount of people I know who get annoyed about it and then, once explained, bluster around and sulk.
You are
brilliant Bex...I never knew that! (about Xmas, that is) I sometimes avoided writing it that way, because I didn't want to upset anyone...now I can abbreviate and appear knowledgeable at the same time LOL
Wishing you all Happy Hoildays
Wishing you all Happy Hoildays I, too. (Thanks for the quote, Candy!)
Ha!! musick, I see you still wear that same happy smile.
Gelukkig Nieuwjaar to you too. And to all you other newcomers and
oldgoers! Another good couple of years!
