Many many moons ago, I worked for a company that did tile setting. I was the only American on the crew. All the rest were Israelis.
I was having a chat with one of the guys at lunch one day. This was near the Christmas holidays. As he was talking, I noticed he pronounced the word holiday as 'holy' day.
In that moment, the true origin of the word was as plain as day to me.
Nice.
Dawned on me reading your post, you just described a great subtle way to make a statement if you’re confronted with a PC liberal you know is deliberately avoiding saying “Christmas” by wishing you a happy holiday.
That same response: “and Happy Holy Day to you also, thanks”.