Re: Country Related: Christmas
| From: | Orjan Johansen <oerjan@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 23, 1998, 21:43 |
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On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Padraic Brown wrote:
> I thought I'd dredge out some real English lit., and lo, the last chapt=
er
> of A Christmas Carol has "Merry Xmas" no less than three times; not a
> "Happy Xmas" in sight. I suppose _that_ ought to clinch the discussion=
if
> nothering else!
For whatever little it's worth, I once read an article in the Norwegian
version of Readers' Digest where they claimed that A Christmas Carol was
responsible for making Merry Christmas the definitive English Christmas
greeting...
Greetings,
=D8rjan.
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