Why is Christmas abbreviated Xmas?

[kayaker]

@kanicbird

Funny how Christ as a way of showing up even when one does not want him.

Jesus is a jerk.

[John_W.Kennedy]

@EscAlaMike

Joke’s on you. Xmas is a thoroughly Christian abbreviation, and you haven’t gotten rid of the mass.

Actually, I think the Protestant cry to “keep Christ in Christmas” is hilariously ironic, since they themselves took the “mass” out of it 500 years ago.

They took out the word “mass”. Only a handful of outliers (Quakers, Salvation Army, and a few others) eliminated the thing itself.

[Rick_Kitchen]

@Yllaria

Mildly related to X-walk and XING, which are pronounced cross-walk and crossing.

Not in the Max Headroom tv series. The character Ped Xing pronounced his name “zing”.

[Yllaria]

@Rick_Kitchen

Not in the Max Headroom tv series. The character Ped Xing pronounced his name “zing”.

Well, if it’s his name he can pronounce it any way he wants.