Do You Prefer Christmas or Xmas?

Prefer Christmas - Xmas sounds too much like eX-husband - but Xmas does not "annoy" me...it is just an abbreviation.

I prefer to use Christmas. But the "X" supposedly stands for the Greek letter that is the first letter of "Christ."

I prefer the spelling 'Christmas' simply because Christ's birth is the reason for the season in the first place. Marketing has made it a sales holiday instead of what it was originally intended to be: a season of peace, joy and goodwill to man, and the celebration of the birth of Jesus. I think they do the 'xmas' instead so it'll be politically correct, or something.

I prefer putting Christmas because it looks better in my opinion... I never really understood where they got that abbreviation anyway...

I prefer that they call it Christmas. I think people have gotten into the happen of using Xmas to shorten the word. The Xmas doesn't bother me as much as when I see the stores that don't mention anything about Christmas and simply say Happy Holidays. Last year I was really upset when the stores in my area started calling the Christas trees ... Holiday Trees.

Definitely Christmas. Is it really that difficult to write it out in full. As for people who want to take the religious significance out of it , i think if it doesn't mean anything to you don't take the holiday at all.

I prefer Xmas just because it fits on gift tags better than Christmas and because I don't use X's for much well except kisses.

good subject for a discussion! I never really thought about it until now, and now is does annoy me. Not at any who feel the need to be politically correct but at the fact I never knew when or how the X came about and I've been carelessly using it as a means to shorten a long word with no reguards as to its meaning, thank you all who have replied and enlightened me to the fact xmas isn't as cheerful and innocent as I thought it was, from now on its Christmas for me. After all Christmas is first and foremost the celebration of Christ and shouldn't be cheapened with an X, bad enough its been commercialized with trees and gifts and a stolen away from Christ by a fat man in a red suit.

Sometimes it does as I think Christmas is being changed the Spirit is just not there like it used to be The Shops bring the Stuff out to early

Yeah, for sure Christmas. I don't get the Xmas...and it does annoy me. hmmm

That is a pretty tree I perfer Christmas

xmas. thats the way to go hehe.

Either one is fine with me. I don't really care. I think Xmas is just basically an abbreviation (for the most part). --- --- --- "I certainly think Britney Spears is the devil. The way she projects herself and the fact that she is so obviously vacuous. I think it's such a shame that she became so influential to very small children." -- MORRISSEY --- --- ---

I ALWAYS put Christmas! I read your comment and agree with your dad putting an X does take the CHRIST out of CHRISTmas. People really need to look at what Christmas is really surpost to be about.

To me Xmas denotes the secular, commercial form of Christmas/Yule. I prefer midwinter as a non specific descriptor, but I belong to a multifaith family (we have pagan and christians) so we celebrate Yule on the 21st then Christmas a few days after, the general holiday season we variously call xmas or midwinter.

i much pefer the word christmas i think that it reads much nicer but i must admit if i text or something than i will always shorten it too xmas.

Xmas is simple

OH ya I forgot at my daughters school we are not allowed to have Christmas parties any more there called holiday parties and the can have a small holiday tree in there room ONLY if they incoperate all the other religuse thinks with it like jewish holiday ect sorry i dont remember them all

I don't like the idea of X-mas

Xians believe in Xmas and Christians believe in Christmas. Let's not take Christ out of Christmas PLEASE!!!