Wednesday, December 24, 2008 – ‘Twas The Night Before….

8:37 am Blog

Can I say, “Christmas?”  Is that going to offend someone?  What about, “Happy Holidays?”  Is that offensive too???

All this political correctness is enough to drive you nuts, if you let it drive you nuts!  I’m not!

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‘Twas the night before….

Can I say, “Christmas?”  Is that going to offend someone?

What about, “Happy Holidays?”  Is that offensive too???

All this political correctness is enough to drive you nuts, if you let it drive you nuts!  I’m not!

Whatever your plans are for this time of year I sincerely hope that you enjoy them!  We really ought to try to enjoy every day and live it to the fullest.

And I also thought you might like to see a whole list of greetings!

The English greetings often begin with saying “Have a…”, written “Wishing you a…” or sometimes end in “…to all!” as a declaration.
Nollaig Shona Duit – Ireland, Gaeilge .. Irish national language greeting for “Happy Christmas”
Happy Holidays – Canada, United States
Buone Feste – Italian
Felices Fiestas – Spanish
Season’s Greetings – Usually refers to upcoming winter holidays, but technically could refer to any season.
Merry Christmas – Australia, United States, The phrase is often immediately followed by and a Happy New Year.
Happy Christmas – United Kingdom
Merry Xmas – Written English (often informal), referencing the Greek word ???st??, for Christ.
Merry Yuletide, Good Yuletide or Happy Yuletide – English, can generally refer to the period of cultural festivities surrounding Yule, Winter solstice, Christmas and the New Year.
Merry Midwinter – English greeting, generally for the period of the winter solstice.
God jul – Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, lit. “Good Yule”
Hyvää joulua – Finnish
Glædelig jul – Danish
Joyous Yule – Usually a Wiccan or Neopagan greeting for the Winter solstice
Joyeux Noël – France, Quebec, Louisiana, Switzerland
Buon Natale – Italy
Frohe Weihnachten/Fröhliche Weihnachten – German for Merry Christmas
Mele Kalikimaka – Hawaiian, is preferred over the traditional American “Merry Christmas” in the U.S. state of Hawaii; made popular worldwide by Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters in 1950 in song
Nollaig Shona Duit – Ireland, (Irish Language), lit. “You have a happy Christmas”.
S’Rozhdestvom Kristovym! or, more commonly, simply S’Rozhdestvom! for the informal Christmas greeting, while the traditional religious greeting is Khrystos razhdayetsya! (meaning “Christ is born!”) and the traditional response is Slavite! (meaning “Let us glorify him!”)- Orthodox and Eastern Rite Catholic countries
Feliz Navidad – Spanish, “Happy Nativity”
Happy Kwanzaa – English greeting used before Kwanzaa.
Wesolych Swiat – Polish greeting used before Christmas (literally ‘Happy Christmas’).
Happy Hanukkah or Happy Chanukah – English
Chag Sameach – Hebrew for “Joyous festival”, used for most Jewish festivals.
Milad Majeed – Arabic for “Merry Christmas” as used in Syria and several other countries
Bayraminiz Mübarek Olsun – Turkey
Selamat Hari Raya or Salam Aidilfitri – Malay and Indonesian
Saehae Bok Mani baduseyo – Happy New Year Korean
Linksmu Šv. Kaledu ir Naujuju Metu – Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Lithuanian
Gëzuar Krishtëlindjen dhe Vitin e Ri – Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Albanian

Have a Happy Household Holiday!

Mike

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One Response

  1. Natural Says:

    I think you are thinking like sukrat, but I think you should cover the other side of the topic in the post too…

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