Just a question.

Over in the USA/Canada, Christmas is referred to as the Holiday Season.

I could be wrong (and please correct me if I am), but I thought that it was called the Holiday Season as opposed to Christmas as a way of involving, or at least, not offending ALL religions and beliefs etc. (Which is good).
However, the word 'holiday' is derived from 'Holy Day', which surely brings it back to Christmas being a religious time for certain religious groups and renders the terminology completely useless.

I'm confused.
What does everybody else think?

I think you are on to something and I think you should contact the people who make such things up and pull them up on it. You may even earn yourself a community action trust reward.

Haystack said:

i see your point. and it's a valid one. maybe we should petition 'them' to change 'holiday' to 'secuday'? as in, 'secular days'? instead of holi? ow. my head hurts

I bet that if I'd put the word 'IceNine' in the title of this thread, it would have been more popular.

I'm such an attention-seeker.
[This message was edited Thu Jan 9 14:14:59 PST 2003 by Haystack]