Friday, 22 December 2006

The "X - Mas factor" of december?

medium_x-factor.jpgDid you know why we oftan spell Christmas with an "X"? You know the word Xmas, which many Christians (Xians?) find offensive. Well, we shouldn't be, since it was the church that introduced it in the first place. In Greek, the first letter of the word Christ is chi, which looks like our X. Xmas was originally an abbreviation that was used by the church in various charts to denote Christmas. Impressed? I thought so. (C) This I stole from Roger Aubrey's blog.

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