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Dec 25, 2019 | 09:54 AM

72rtchallenger

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Merry Christmas

Dec 25, 2019 | 10:34 AM

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Merry Christmas y'all!

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Dec 25, 2019 | 10:46 AM

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Merry Christmas from the Oregon coast.

Dec 25, 2019 | 10:53 AM

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May all your prayers and wishes be granted.
MERRY CHISTMAS EVERYONE
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Dec 25, 2019 | 12:06 PM

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Merry Christmas from Florida!

(I got a new DC steering wheel, so I'm happy!)

Dec 25, 2019 | 12:22 PM

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Merry Christmas, friends. My wife framed and hung these pictures in my office as a Christmas present.

Dec 25, 2019 | 12:27 PM

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Merry Christmas to all from ontario canada😎

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Dec 25, 2019 | 07:24 PM

Ozzie H.

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Holidays are often preceded by "Happy" except Christmas is usually preceded by "Merry". Why the difference?

In any case, I hope everyone is having a good holiday season.

Dec 25, 2019 | 07:37 PM

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72rtchallenger

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Originally Posted by Ozzie H.

Holidays are often preceded by "Happy" except Christmas is usually preceded by "Merry". Why the difference?

In any case, I hope everyone is having a good holiday season.

Because America beat the British and became a free nation I suppose lol , as the Brits use Happy Christmas but in America we use Merry Christmas . Of course thats just me lol since I live in America , so no offense to anyone is meant as we share this site for all Ford lovers and may all have a Merry or Happy Christmas , to each is own , ,but the story below is pretty factual .but I have read other ideas about it all,,in any case I guess Happy Christmas and Happy holidays was to redundant lol
In the first commercial Christmas card that came out in 1843, the verse, "A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to You" was shown. As a salutation though, the use of Merry Christmas started about 1534, when John Fisher, an English Catholic bishop, sent a letter to Thomas Cromwell on the 22nd of December, to extend his season's greetings.

In 1843, which was the early part of Queen Victoria's reign, the novel, "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens was published. It was the beginning of the Christmas celebration that we know today. It was also during that time that the word "merry" took on the meaning of outgoing or jovial. Previously it was a term used to mean agreeable, peaceful and pleasant, as in "make merry" that was used in the 1300s, "Merry England" (around the 1400s) and the "Merry Month of May" that was used circa the 1560s.

Queen Elizabeth II did not favor the change in meaning of the word "merry" though and refused to use it. That is why the English royalty still use "Happy Christmas" instead.