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We are close to Christmas and to the end of the year.
I want to express to everyone how much I am grateful to Anu and to each one of you all, for giving - every day - something new: a word, a play on words, a new idea to think at...
So I would like to say to everyone
BUON NATALE E FELICE ANNO NUOVO = (Have a ) good Christmas and a happy new year
Emanuela
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Many happy returns to you too, emanuela. How very nice of you to think of us all.
If you have a minute on Christmas eve do not forget poor lukaszd who is obliged to work that night. I must calculate what his time is (Poland) relative to mine (Canada) as I don’t want to be logging on to AWAD to wish him good cheer, only to find that it is way past Christmas eve on his side and he has passed it all alone.
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Grazie [sp?] Emanuela, and Christmas Greetings to you too and to all A Word A Dayers and, especially, Anu. Hasn't this been a wonderful year for us all -- finding friendship and fun with words.
I'll be away from my computer for a week over Christmas but will be keen to return to a board full of posts and Christmas cheer.
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I'll be away from my computer for a week over Christmas but will be keen to return to a board full of posts and Christmas cheer.
I'm hoping that enough of us are busy during Christmas that there won't be a copious amount of posts when we come back.
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To all of you who have helped to make my life richer and sligtly more bearable; for all of the posts, public and private, that have brightened the day; for all of you who have been tolerant of my rants and rages: A VERY BIG THANK YOUespecially to Anu, and all the best to you all for this merry season of Yuletide, when the Earth and all things on it renew themselves. May the coming year bring all of you and all of yours happiness and fulfilment - and may the inventiveness and drollery that illuminates this board continue to enrich the English language, whatever version you use!  RhubarbCommando
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Bless your sweet heart, Emanuela, for wishing us all a "buon Natale" and a "felice Anno Nuovo." You took a little risk in doing so. In the United States, there is a sense that it is no longer politically correct to wish anyone a "Merry Christmas" for fear that the person addressed may be Jewish or Muslim or Druid and find the distinctly Christian greeting grounds for offense. I have never known a Jew or Muslim or Druid who actually was offended by being wished a "Merry Christmas" but the mere hypothetical possibility that some Jew or Muslim or Druid exists somewhere who might be offended is enough to move the forces of political correctness into high gear. Thus there is a deluge of "new" Christmas cards which contain expressions like "Happy Holidays" or "Best of the Season."
I join Emanuela in wishing you all (Jews, Muslims and Druids included) a happy Christmastide.
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Father Steve says:I join Emanuela in wishing you all (Jews, Muslims and Druids included) a happy Christmastide.
As a non-liturgical Pagan I would like to thank Father Steve for his kind wishes but I can't resist reminding him that the holiday is, despite its Christian name, Pagan in origin. (We got back with Easter, which has Christian and Pagan roots and, in English speaking countries at least, a Pagan name.)
That irregardless, I wish to extend my greetings to all for a joyous Yule.
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I'm an atheist and independently of that I despise Christmas, but I always say "Merry Christmas" to Americans out of sheer bloody-mindedness.
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Cyfarchion y Nadolig a Dymuniadau Gorau am y Flwyddyn Newydd, pobl!and as I shall be taking off for a couple of weeks, I suspect I shall be forced to miss nearly 2,000 posts of combined wisdom and inanity at today's extraordinary rate! Have a wonderful time with whomever and however suits your style. Because irrespective (  tsuwm) of the trappings, this time of year is surely about the fundamentals of animal and plant life on this planet - it is about renewal. Look forward to talking to all of you next year in friendly discourse.
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