Christmas and XMas

But for Jane Wyles, deputy editor of the Church of England's C Magazine for the Diocese of Southwell, it is part of a "blasé attitude" towards Christmas which she finds offensive.

"I know Xmas has been substituted for Christmas for a long, long time but it gets my goat," she said.

"It is the glib way people substitute Christ with this anonymous 'X'. It's all part of the PC picture - Christianity gets squashed into a smaller and smaller corner."

She is also not convinced by the argument that the word's history makes it acceptable.

"It makes it a bit better but, at the same time, people aren't writing it for that reason. They are writing it for quickness," she said.

"When it comes down to it, it doesn't really matter, but it's just part of the whole degeneration of world, for me personally, is very important."

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