[net.followup] Xmas <I hate the advertisments boycott> parse date string

stewart (11/18/82)

Actually the "X" in "Xmas" is not the English/Roman letter "X" at all.
It is the Greek letter "chi", the first letter of the Greek word
"christos," meaning "Christ."  The abbreviation "Xmas" is somewhat
ecclectic, I admit, but it is far from being the travesty many of us
believe it to be.
	John Stewart

halle1 (11/18/82)

The "X" in Xmas is a reference to the Greek chi, the first letter in the
Greek spelling of Christ.

rew (11/18/82)

You should reserve your disgust for something other than the 'X'
in Xmas.  It is really a Greek 'Chi' and, as by now you might
suspect, the first letter in 'Christos', Greek for Christ.  

Bob Warren
cbosgd!nscs!rew

trb (11/18/82)

Re: taking the X out of Christmas

The X is no Madison Avenue innovation.

The letter X has been symbolic of Christ for a LONG time; the Greek
name Christos is spelled beginning with the letter chi (X).

My dictionary (Webster's New Colliegiate - Merriam) lists Xn and Xnty
as abbrevs for Christian and Christianity, with no slurs implied.

	Andy Tannenbaum   Bell Labs  Whippany, NJ   (201) 386-6491

stan (11/19/82)

I hate parsing date strings.