The abbreviation 'Xmas'

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Do you use this abbreviation, or do you just type / handwrite 'Christmas' in full?

Poll Results

Option	Votes
I love Xmas and use it all the time	19
I'm interchangeable between it and the full version	18
I use it if pushed for space	12
Only disgusting savages use 'Xmas'	12
I pretty much always use the full word	8

― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 13 December 2012 15:12 (thirteen years ago)

Wife accused me of telling her off for using 'Xmas' last night. Can't remember if I ever did so, but I think I have decided that 'Xmas' is just for disgusting savages.

― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 13 December 2012 15:13 (thirteen years ago)

who cares

― Tome Cruise (Matt P), Thursday, 13 December 2012 15:16 (thirteen years ago)

Oh.

― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 13 December 2012 15:17 (thirteen years ago)

There is a common misconception that the word Xmas stems from a secular attempt to remove the religious tradition from Christmas[3] by taking the "Christ" out of "Christmas".

― ledge, Thursday, 13 December 2012 15:17 (thirteen years ago)

always assumed it was a cross reference lol i said cross reference but a second's consideration makes that sound a little silly

― first u get the flower, then u get the honey, then u get the stamen (darraghmac), Thursday, 13 December 2012 15:20 (thirteen years ago)

shawx reference

― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Thursday, 13 December 2012 15:21 (thirteen years ago)

I use it all the time, even out loud.

― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Thursday, 13 December 2012 15:22 (thirteen years ago)

I always use the full word, but don't care if someone writes 'Xmas'. If someone says 'Xmas' I might look at them a bit funny though.

― Paul McCartney, the Gary Barlow of The Beatles (snoball), Thursday, 13 December 2012 15:22 (thirteen years ago)

xp I'm looking at you a bit funny...

― Paul McCartney, the Gary Barlow of The Beatles (snoball), Thursday, 13 December 2012 15:22 (thirteen years ago)

christp you mean

― ledge, Thursday, 13 December 2012 15:23 (thirteen years ago)

christp on a bikep

― Paul McCartney, the Gary Barlow of The Beatles (snoball), Thursday, 13 December 2012 15:23 (thirteen years ago)

in a formal or handwritten context with no opportunity to troll xtians 'xmas' is pretty gauche, typing xmas on ilx or whatever = who cares

― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Thursday, 13 December 2012 15:23 (thirteen years ago)

why do you guys want to take the "Christ" out of "Christpost" ;_;

― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Thursday, 13 December 2012 15:25 (thirteen years ago)

I hate Christmas bcz heathens 'celebrate' it

― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 December 2012 15:26 (thirteen years ago)

it's xmas

― conrad, Thursday, 13 December 2012 15:27 (thirteen years ago)

I'll write it, but I would never say 'Ecchsmas'. Do people?

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Thursday, 13 December 2012 15:59 (thirteen years ago)

alfred e. neuman might

― my dinner of butt (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:00 (thirteen years ago)

Eczemas

― Paul McCartney, the Gary Barlow of The Beatles (snoball), Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:02 (thirteen years ago)

I started saying "ecksmas" as a joke and now I unironically say it about 50% of the time

learn from my mistakes

― Jesus, the Total Douchebag (DJP), Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:05 (thirteen years ago)

say it with a soft x iirc

― first u get the flower, then u get the honey, then u get the stamen (darraghmac), Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:09 (thirteen years ago)

Yeah, I did that with 'lol'.

― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:10 (thirteen years ago)

you say 'lol' but you cant abide 'xmas'

― just sayin, Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:13 (thirteen years ago)

Chi-mas

― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:13 (thirteen years ago)

There is a common misconception that the word Xmas stems from a secular attempt to remove the religious tradition from Christmas

My parents (despite not normally being on the nutty war-against fringe of Christianity) told me that "xmas" was uncouth for this reason when I was a kid, so for ages I avoided it. But now when I'm typing online or texting friends I worry that typing "Christmas" in full will make me look like not just a Christian but a particularly tut-tutty one who says that kind of thing, so I tend to type "xmas" a bit self-consciously. Always lower-case, though, as "Xmas" looks odd and unbalanced to me.

I guess "wobs" is well past its use-by date but I enjoyed its brief moment. I think I was hoping it would one day become universal enough to say out loud, because it would be fun to say.

― a panda, Malmö (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:22 (thirteen years ago)

Xmas is just an easier way to write it. Plus if you upset any uptight Christians you can just say the X is really a cross or something.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:24 (thirteen years ago)

nowadays I prefer "Chrishttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Marco_palmezzano,_crocifissione_degli_Uffizi.jpg/220px-Marco_palmezzano,_crocifissione_degli_Uffizi.jpgmas"

― Jesus, the Total Douchebag (DJP), Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:26 (thirteen years ago)

I write xmas if I'm feeling lazy, which is 90 percent of the time.

― this will surprise many (Nicole), Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:27 (thirteen years ago)

Chris T. Mas

― Paul McCartney, the Gary Barlow of The Beatles (snoball), Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:28 (thirteen years ago)

Xtina

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:28 (thirteen years ago)

xxp you should get a rubber stamp with the word 'Christmas' on it, save even more time.

― Paul McCartney, the Gary Barlow of The Beatles (snoball), Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:28 (thirteen years ago)

you forgot "i'm a jew, you insensitive christian-centric scumbag, so this affects me not at all."

― my dinner of butt (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:28 (thirteen years ago)

'some-random-dude-was-born-in-Bethlehem-mas'

― Paul McCartney, the Gary Barlow of The Beatles (snoball), Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:31 (thirteen years ago)

Though-almost-certainly-on-a-different-date-mas

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:33 (thirteen years ago)

'pedant-that-always-says-"you know this is just a co-opted Pagan festival, right"-at-Christmas-lunch-mas'

― Paul McCartney, the Gary Barlow of The Beatles (snoball), Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:36 (thirteen years ago)

Zing-mas

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:36 (thirteen years ago)

guess-what-i-looked-up-on-wikipedia-mas

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:36 (thirteen years ago)

Voted disgusting savages

― Tom D is secretly an important person (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:40 (thirteen years ago)

There is a common misconception that the word Xmas stems from a secular attempt to remove the religious tradition from Christmas[3] by taking the "Christ" out of "Christmas".

So Mark E. Smith was wrong when he sang, "The X in Xmas is a substitute crucifix for Christ"? Not that he sang it.

― Tom D is secretly an important person (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:43 (thirteen years ago)

Only disgusting savages use 'Xmas'

https://soundcloud.com/#nedraggett/mark-grout-xmas-trees?in=nedraggett/sets/the-ilx-christmas-compilation

― Mark G, Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:43 (thirteen years ago)

Saturnaliamas

― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:43 (thirteen years ago)

LOL (xp)

― Tom D is secretly an important person (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:45 (thirteen years ago)

Sorry (Christp)

― Tom D is secretly an important person (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:45 (thirteen years ago)

gonna go and d/l some ChristChristChrist movies

― Paul McCartney, the Gary Barlow of The Beatles (snoball), Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:48 (thirteen years ago)

(voted for it, anyway)

― Mark G, Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:48 (thirteen years ago)

Sorry (Christp)

Took me a second, got it..

― Mark G, Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:49 (thirteen years ago)

XXXmas

― sadkdsajkldaskjdsajklasdkl (Pat Finn), Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:59 (thirteen years ago)

I think we should bring back Christ-tide.

― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 13 December 2012 19:21 (thirteen years ago)

resurrect it u mean

― first u get the flower, then u get the honey, then u get the stamen (darraghmac), Thursday, 13 December 2012 19:27 (thirteen years ago)

i like when ppl pronounce it ecchs-mas cause it always makes me think of 'No Xmas for John Quays' and I start head-banging.

― the clown's reflection is incorrect (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 13 December 2012 19:29 (thirteen years ago)

X-ukkah

― sadkdsajkldaskjdsajklasdkl (Pat Finn), Thursday, 13 December 2012 19:32 (thirteen years ago)

The X in Xmas is generally accepted to be the greek letter chi (pronounced 'hee' with a roughened 'h'). The greek word 'christos' (i.e. christ) means 'annointed one' and it begins with the letter chi. Roman crucifixes often took the form of an X, rather than a T. Consequently, the early church often used the chi as a symbol of Jesus, the crucified christ.

People find all kinds of strange shit to get all worked up about.

― Aimless, Thursday, 13 December 2012 19:42 (thirteen years ago)

Christ Christ LaRue

― Black Rod, Jane, and Freddy (snoball), Thursday, 13 December 2012 19:43 (thirteen years ago)

I feel slightly transgressive using it even now.

― grossly incorrect register (in orbit), Thursday, 13 December 2012 19:43 (thirteen years ago)

I almost always use Xmas.

― Jeff, Thursday, 13 December 2012 19:43 (thirteen years ago)

I wonder if anyone has made that point to one of the right wing pundits banging on about the "war on christmas". somehow i think it would trip them up, if only momentarily.

― sadkdsajkldaskjdsajklasdkl (Pat Finn), Thursday, 13 December 2012 19:44 (thirteen years ago)

by "that point" i meant Aimless's post.

― sadkdsajkldaskjdsajklasdkl (Pat Finn), Thursday, 13 December 2012 19:44 (thirteen years ago)

I truly have no opinion about this. Not sure there is a voting choice for that?

― passion it person (La Lechera), Thursday, 13 December 2012 19:45 (thirteen years ago)

No. Man is condemned always to choose.

― Soren Kierkegaard (Pat Finn), Thursday, 13 December 2012 19:48 (thirteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Sunday, 23 December 2012 00:01 (thirteen years ago)

Real bros say twelvetide

― when worlds coincide (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 23 December 2012 05:11 (thirteen years ago)

There is a common misconception that the word Xmas stems from a secular attempt to remove the religious tradition from Christmas

i write xmas all the time and this is indeed my motivation for doing so

"christ" should be reserved strictly for its use as an expletive

― lex pretend, Sunday, 23 December 2012 08:44 (thirteen years ago)

Hahaha amen!

― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Sunday, 23 December 2012 15:39 (thirteen years ago)

That is why I write it as Xmas, too.

― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Sunday, 23 December 2012 15:41 (thirteen years ago)

i'm calling myself xopher from now on

― Chris, Sunday, 23 December 2012 15:57 (thirteen years ago)

burn in hell, heathens

― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 23 December 2012 16:01 (thirteen years ago)

I stay home from Xpride every June

― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 23 December 2012 16:01 (thirteen years ago)

i like "yule" and "noel"

― nashwan, Sunday, 23 December 2012 16:12 (thirteen years ago)

I'm interchangeable between it and the full version

― WilliamC, Sunday, 23 December 2012 16:14 (thirteen years ago)

Every day is Xpride in this country.

― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Sunday, 23 December 2012 16:48 (thirteen years ago)

i like "yule" and "noel"

― nashwan, Sunday, 23 December 2012 16:12 (38 minutes ago)

― things that are jokes pretty much (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 23 December 2012 16:50 (thirteen years ago)

I like to call Him by His full name: Jesus HIV Christ.

― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Sunday, 23 December 2012 16:53 (thirteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Monday, 24 December 2012 00:01 (thirteen years ago)

when i was ooh i guess 9 or so i pointed out to my eldery substitute teacher that 'xmas' was not in fact "BLASPHEMOUS" and rather had perfectly legit greek origins. she didn't seem too convinced.

― Shane Richie Junior (Merdeyeux), Monday, 24 December 2012 00:12 (thirteen years ago)

been reading this as "cocksmas"

― t_s (how's life), Monday, 24 December 2012 00:19 (thirteen years ago)

sexmas

― NINO CARTER, Monday, 24 December 2012 00:20 (thirteen years ago)

Christbox 360

― These are my every day balloons (Ste), Monday, 24 December 2012 00:27 (thirteen years ago)

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