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German Group Vilifies 'X-Mas'
Grant Barrett
San Diego, California
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2008/12/21 - 6:38am
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German Group Vilifies 'X-Mas'. A language watchdog group announced Wednesday that it has found the year's 'most uncalled-for word' in German. The honor is both an abbreviation and an anglicism: 'X-mas.' But the term is centuries old.

Martha Barnette
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2008/12/21 - 8:33am
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Good lord! Well, first they should take out the hyphen. Looks too much like "X-Men"!

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