Re: Country Related: Christmas
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 25, 1998, 19:20 |
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Orjan Johansen wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Padraic Brown wrote:
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> > I thought I'd dredge out some real English lit., and lo, the last cha=
pter
> > 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 discussi=
on 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 wa=
s
> responsible for making Merry Christmas the definitive English Christmas
> greeting...
FWIW, I can remember in elementary school choir when we had to
sing some song by Mozart that went "Sing a song of Merry
Christmas, etc." That's probably not the origin, but it's old enough...
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Tom Wier <twier@...>
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