Twelve Christmasses

Product Information

Roll, Susan K. (1995). Toward the Origins of Christmas. Peeters Publishers. p.133. ISBN 978-90-390-0531-6. Google’s own N-Gram Viewer Data shows how frequently each spelling variation of Christmas is used. The singular spelling Christmas is used the most frequently by a large margin. However, you can see that the plural version (Christmases) is used more commonly than Christmas’. Just like we saw in our post comparing the words Parents’ vs Parent’s, writers have to pay close attention to punctuation. This is because it is very rare to use the possessive form of Christmas. Our Lord, too, is born in the month of December ... the eighth before the calends of January [25 December] ... But they [the Romans] call it the ' Birthday of the Unconquered'. Who indeed is so unconquered as Our Lord? Or, if they say that it is the birthday of the Sun, [we may say] He is the Sun of Justice". [24]

Christmas and its cycle". New Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol.3 (2nded.). Catholic University of America Press. 2002. pp.550–557.The neighborhood’s annual Christmas’ party was a grand affair, filled with laughter, music, and delicious treats.” Protests followed as pro-Christmas rioting broke out in several cities and for weeks Canterbury was controlled by the rioters, who decorated doorways with holly and shouted royalist slogans. [94] Football, among the sports the Puritans banned on a Sunday, was also used as a rebellious force: when Puritans outlawed Christmas in England in December 1647 the crowd brought out footballs as a symbol of festive misrule. [118] The book, The Vindication of Christmas (London, 1652), argued against the Puritans, and makes note of Old English Christmas traditions, dinner, roast apples on the fire, card playing, dances with "plow-boys" and "maidservants", old Father Christmas and carol singing. [119] During the ban, semi-clandestine religious services marking Christ's birth continued to be held, and people sang carols in secret. [115] The Examination and Tryal of Old Father Christmas, (1686), published after Christmas was reinstated as a holy day in England The proper plural form of the word Christmas is Christmases. However, Christmas’s and Christmas’ are both also correct, just not for the same reason. The apostrophe S and the S apostrophe are used to show possession and not multiples. Christmases

The earliest extant specifically Christmas hymns appear in fourth-century Rome. Latin hymns such as " Veni redemptor gentium", written by Ambrose, Archbishop of Milan, were austere statements of the theological doctrine of the Incarnation in opposition to Arianism. "Corde natus ex Parentis" ("Of the Father's love begotten") by the Spanish poet Prudentius (d. 413) is still sung in some churches today. [212] In the 9th and 10th centuries, the Christmas "Sequence" or "Prose" was introduced in North European monasteries, developing under Bernard of Clairvaux into a sequence of rhymed stanzas. In the 12th century the Parisian monk Adam of St. Victor began to derive music from popular songs, introducing something closer to the traditional Christmas carol. Christmas carols in English appear in a 1426 work of John Awdlay who lists twenty five "caroles of Cristemas", probably sung by groups of ' wassailers', who went from house to house. [213] Child singers in Bucharest, 1841 Nearly all organizations, except hospitals and shelters for the homeless, are closed on Christmas Day. Some public houses and smaller stores selling food may open for a few hours in the middle of the day. Public transport services do not run to their normal timetables and may even not run at all. Public life closes down almost totally on Christmas Day. Correspondence between Julian December 25 and Gregorian January 7 of the following year holds until 2100; from 2101 to 2199 the difference will be one day more. [ citation needed]https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/09/03/walmart-toy-list-2020-kids-interactive-play-christmas-holiday-gifts/5694280002/ Christmas Strongly Religious For Half in U.S. Who Celebrate It". Gallup, Inc. December 24, 2010. Archived from the original on December 7, 2012 . Retrieved December 16, 2012.

It’s September, so that means it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas and holiday shopping. And Walmart has unwrapped its annual list of the toys kids say they want most. – USA Today

Christmases is the proper plural form of the word Christmas. If you are talking about more than one Christmas, a Christmas that happened in the past, or a Christmas that is coming in the future, you will use Christmases. There are different hypotheses regarding the date of Jesus' birth and in the early fourth century, the church fixed the date as December 25. [b] [13] [14] [15] This corresponds to the traditional date of the winter solstice on the Roman calendar. [16] It is exactly nine months after Annunciation on March 25, also the date of the spring equinox. [17] Most Christians celebrate on December 25 in the Gregorian calendar, which has been adopted almost universally in the civil calendars used in countries throughout the world. However, part of the Eastern Christian Churches celebrate Christmas on December 25 of the older Julian calendar, which currently corresponds to January 7 in the Gregorian calendar. For Christians, believing that God came into the world in the form of man to atone for the sins of humanity, rather than knowing Jesus' exact birth date, is considered to be the primary purpose in celebrating Christmas. [18] [19] [20] a b c Martindale, Cyril Charles (1908). "Christmas". The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol.3. New York: Robert Appleton Company. You’ll rarely see Christmas used in the possessive form. However, if you do, Christmas’s is one way that to write Christmas in the possessive form. Christmas cards are illustrated messages of greeting exchanged between friends and family members during the weeks preceding Christmas Day. The traditional greeting reads "wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year", much like that of the first commercial Christmas card, produced by Sir Henry Cole in London in 1843. [222] The custom of sending them has become popular among a wide cross-section of people with the emergence of the modern trend towards exchanging E-cards. [223] [224]