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Happy Christmas vs Merry Christmas
Quite a few people have said “Happy Christmas” to me, which made me really happy. However it made me wondered why they chose “Happy Christmas” over “Merry Christmas”, as I was taught to say “Merry Christmas” when I was in China. The reasoning behind that is so you can chain “Happy New Year” after “Merry Christmas”, as these two festivals are quite close to each other.
In this blog post, we explore why some people prefer “Happy Christmas” and why some people prefer “Merry Christmas”.
Happy Christmas
The phrase “Happy Christmas” is used by the following people or organisations:
- (Future Dr.) DD in a SMS message 1)
- Dean of Norwich, The Very Revd Jane Hedges, after a Christmas Procession with Carols.
- Abbot David Charlesworth OSB at the introductory video before BBC One's Midnight Mass.
- King's College Cambridge in the service booklet for A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols 2).
- BBC Radio 4 in one of the programmes.
Merry Christmas
Conclusion
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it is always lovely to receive messages from her. lol.
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2012 Christmas Message Transcript https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/queen-elizabeth-II/9765734/Queens-Christmas-Day-speech-in-full.html
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2013 Christmas Message Transcript https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/25/queen-christmas-message-time-to-reflect
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2014 Christmas Message Transcript https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/queens-speech-2014-christmas-message-in-full-9944960.html
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2015 Christmas Message Transcript https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35178485
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2016 Christmas Message Transcript https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/dec/25/the-queens-speech-christmas-day-full-transcript-elizabeth
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2017 Christmas Message Transcript https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/watch-queens-christmas-speech-2017-11750074
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https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Merry+Christmas%2CHappy+Christmas&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=6
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History of the Phrase Merry Christmas https://www.allthingschristmas.com/history-of-christmas/history-phrase-merry-christmas/
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The meaning and origin of the expression: Merry Christmas https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/merry-christmas.html
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Merry Christmas vs Happy Christmas https://grammarist.com/spelling/merry-christmas-vs-happy-christmas/
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