Pre-Xmas Rant

Before I start to recieve death threats from any christian fundamentalist nutjobs for my spelling of xmas in the following blog, I would like to draw their attention to the following entry on Wikipedia:

"Xmas (or X-mas) is an abbreviation for Christmas. It is derived from the word ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ, transliterated as Christos, which is Greek for Christ. Greek is the language in which the whole New Testament was written.

Originally, in "Xmas", X represented the Greek letter χ . It was pronounced with an aspirated [kh], which is the first letter of Christ's name in Greek. However, because an upper-case χ has the same shape as a Latin alphabet letter X, many people who do not know the history assume that this abbreviation is meant to "take Christ out of Christmas" as a means of secularisation or a vehicle for political correctness.

And please, don't get me started on the hushed conspiritorial 'disgusted of Peterborough' conversation currently on every street corner, office water cooler and newsagent counter in Britain, the classic "Oooh, and have you heard, you're not allowed to call it Christmas anymore, you've got to call it 'winter holidays' so you don't offend muslims, I think its disgusting etc etc..." No you don't you silly little f*cking islanders!!! "Ooooh! The foreigners are coming!! They're taking over!" We have soo much to thank the Mail for...