Friday, December 25, 2009

Keeping the X in Xmas

When people say we ought to put the Christ back in Christmas, i heartily concur. In fact, i think that that doesn’t go far enough. I say we ought to put the voiceless velar fricative back at the beginning of Chanukah, and the penultimate stress back at the end of Kwanzaa, and the…

No, it’s not original with me. Wish i’d been clever enough that it was, though.

1 comment:

Heather the Mama Duk said...

See, it's this gutteral sound...

(Ever seen The Best Two Years?)

It's funny... X for Christ was used long before people got mad about Xmas. It was explained in A Child's History of the World on a kid level (you told me the same thing long ago) and that was written originally in something like 1914.