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Re: Country Related: Christmas

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 23, 1998, 21:35
On Wed, 23 Dec 1998 10:31:25 -0500 Padraic Brown
<pbrown@...> writes:
>On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Eric Christopherson wrote: >> > I doubt very much that the PC rubbish has hit Kemr, so I think >"Happy >> > Holidays" is out. >> >> Did the phrase "happy holidays" come into currency because of >> political correctness? I always assumed it was older than that. I've >> known it all of my twenty years, although maybe PC had gained a >> foothold by then.
I always assumed that "happy holidays" refers to the christian holidays of Christmas and New Year's. Nothing to do with political correctness...if it was, it would probably be "happy holiday", since when you disregard January 1, each religion/ethnicity i know of that has a holiday around this time has only one. -Stephen (Steg) ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]