Xmas? What the...

Originally posted by chancremechanic
It's just a lazy way of writing Christmas...many words in America these days are shortened, especially sports teams' names....Bosox, Chisox, D-Backs, etc....

What I didn't particularly agree with is the Americans changing the accepted spelling of sulfur (ex. sulphur). I don't understand how that would be beneficial, and changing phone to fone wouldn't.

Originally posted by DreamlaX
Whenever I see Christmas written like "Xmas," I can't help but think "crossmas" in my head. My chemistry teacher would often shorten the term "crystals" to "xtals," not sure if that's standard or not, but I kept thinking "crosstals" there too.

Can someone tell me where this shorter form came from? I know it's not a debate, but it could be. It just doesn't make terribly much sense to me to shorten it like that.

xtal is a ligitimate part of the "morris code".

He included it because it was too time consuming to type out the word Chrystal in each message send.

The "xtal set society" is one of the largest radio clubs in the world. I used to do that as one of my hobbies. Long ago. Far away. In a galaxie where Chrystals power space craft and have magic in em'.

http://www.midnightscience.com/

for more information on a fun hobby.

Oh yea. I am sure glad that God never named his kid "X". Can you imagine the power of "The X-Men" movies would have over society.