Why We Say Merry Christmas
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Why do we say merry Christmas but never merry Thanksgiving or merry Easter? Sounds weird when
you think about it, right? I mean, we say happy for
literally every other holiday. Happy New Year, happy Halloween, happy birthday.
But Christmas, it's predominantly merry. And here's what shocked me.
There's a 500-year-old linguistic evolution behind this that involves Charles Dickens popularizing
merry during the Victorian Christmas revival and Puritans who frowned on the rowdy merry connotations
associated with alcohol-fueled celebrations. Stay with me because what I'm about to reveal will completely
change how you hear those Christmas greetings forever. Let's dive in. Here's something
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