From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!CSvax:mab Newsgroups: net.followup Title: Re: X in Christmas Article-I.D.: purdue.485 Posted: Tue Jan 11 18:21:31 1983 Received: Fri Jan 14 02:42:24 1983 References: mitccc.251 The "X" in Xmas is from the Greek for "Christ." The Greek transliteration of "Christ" begins with the character "chi," which is written like the character "X" in our alphabet. Matt Bishop mab@purdue, {decvax|ucbvax}!pur-ee:csvax:mab