Dec 15
A good point was made today… The word “holiday” derives from “holy day”. So the politically correct crowd that wants to be as inoffensive as possible by not mentioning Christmas does so by wishing their targets a happy “holy day”. Conversely, those who are offended that Christmas has been excluded from the greeting are offended by happy “holy day” greetings. What religion and what holy day do you think the word could possibly refer to?
What a mess.
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December 26th, 2005 at 4:05 pm
People usually use “happy holidays” when being generic; note the plural. Several religions have holy days around the solstice, and “holidays” is at least generic enough to cover Yule, Christmas and Hannukah, and can even be stretched to cover New Year’s if one needs to spread the P.C.-ness a bit thin.