2006-12-07 08:23:59 · 14 answers · asked by puh-lease 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
X-mas is just for short, but sometimes it's considered the non-religious version. It takes out the word Christ, which was originally the whole point of Christmas. But a lot of people have forgotten about that now, or just celebrate it for fun.
2006-12-07 08:26:55 · answer #1 · answered by mrs. vader 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
i do not understand the specifics, yet x-mas has some thing to do with early Christianity. I requested someone an identical question years in the past and they defined that x-mas is a Christian time period and does in no way mean you're replaceing the Christ in Christmas. I favor i ought to remember the files to his clarification, yet i'm confident you need to discover it someplace.
2016-11-24 21:41:09 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
X-mas is an abbreviation of Christmas, but the X represents the cross, and that is supposed to make X-mas acceptable to use.
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2006-12-07 08:31:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
They are the same thing
The X was an original Christian symbol and The word "Christ" and its compounds, including "Christmas", have been abbreviated for at least the past 1,000 years, long before the modern "Xmas" was commonly used. "Christ" was often written as "XP" or "Xt"; there are references in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as far back as 1021 AD. This X and P arose as the uppercase forms of the Greek letters χ and ρ), used in ancient abbreviations for Χριστος (Greek for "Christ") and are still widely seen in many Eastern Orthodox icons depicting Jesus Christ
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2006-12-07 08:26:40 · answer #4 · answered by SALMON 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Spelling. X-mas is the short form :)
2006-12-07 08:32:35 · answer #5 · answered by Rachel 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a couple of letters. X-mas is usually to represent the non-religious side of the holiday.
2006-12-07 08:27:20 · answer #6 · answered by moviegirl 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
X is a symbol for Christ
so Xmas means CHRISTmas
People will tell you it is not Christian...but it is. It's Greek. In the Ichtus...what they hung over the cross X stood for Christ.
2006-12-07 08:27:03 · answer #7 · answered by Kindred 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The same difference between lol and laugh out loud.
2006-12-07 08:27:20 · answer #8 · answered by eeyoree rocks2003 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Nothing they are the same thing... Xmas is just a shorter version
2006-12-07 08:53:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same thing as...
Straight sex and Gay sex...Its all sex
You give and you take
There are no difference between the too.
2006-12-07 08:26:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋