[VRWCmember]

The first two letters of the word Christ (cristoV, or as it would be written in older manuscripts, CRISTOS) are the Greek letters chi (c or C) and rho (r or R).

But the Greek letter Chi looks like X, and the Greek letter Rho looks like P. So the first two letters of Christ would be XP.

[doc1019]

Great, if you are a Greek scholar, for the rest of us, we prefer Christmas.

The history of Xmas in America comes more from greed then as an abbreviation of Christmas. It fit better on advertisements then the longer word “Christmas”.

[donna]

Weird, at the link it looks like a “p” but when I copy and paste it comes out as “r or R”.