Posted by PeterH on October 28, 2006 at 22:16:25 from 81.155.57.182 user Peter_H.
In Reply to: Re: PC again (Was Taking another tack (was Contemporary Appeal) posted by Ian E-N on October 28, 2006 at 21:40:44:
"Christmas" being a muddled mish mash of various vaguely symbolic mythic flummery patched onto a pre-existing mid winter festival.
B*ll*cks! Christmas is now the almost universally accepted UK term for the period from mid-Dec to end of the year - a largely secular and commercial festival, but one with deep social overtones, for good or bad. It is pathetic for a group of people to attempt arbitrarily to foist another word onto the rest of us, whether it's 'Winterval' or anything else. What about 'Freezihols'?