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We would like individuals a 'Happy Birthday', and if you are within the USA in Nov and December you would possibly say 'Happy Holidays', therefore why can we say 'Merry Christmas' a lot of typically than 'Happy Christmas'?!

Saying 'Merry Christmas' instead of 'Happy Christmas' appears to travel back many hundred years. It's 1st recorded in 1534 once John Fisher (an English Catholic Bishop within the 1500s) wrote it in an exceedingly Christmas letter to Thomas Cromwell: "And this our Lord God send you a mery Christmas, and a snug, to your heart’s need." 

There's additionally the carol "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen" that dates back to the sixteenth century in European country. It comes from the geographical area in European country and it absolutely was 1st printed within the type we all know it nowadays in 1760. 

In the English of the time, the phrase 'Rest You Merry' did not mean merely to be happy; 'rest' meant "to keep, cause to still remain" and 'merry' may mean "pleasant, bountiful, prosperous". therefore you may write the primary line as "[May] God keep you and still cause you to palmy and prosperous, Gentlemen" however that may be exhausting to sing!

 The comma within the phrase ought to once|plan|intend|mean|think} the 'merry' not BEFORE it! however it's typically place after the merry that changes the aiming to create 'merry Gentleman' then a 'Merry Christmas'! The term 'Merry Christmas' may well are created extremely popular in 1843 from 2 completely different sources. 



The first greeting card, sent in 1843 by Sir Henry Cole, had this phraseology on it: "A Merry Christmas and a contented year to You". A carol by author was additionally printed in 1843 {and the|and therefore the|and additionally the} phrase 'Merry Christmas' seems twenty one times within the book! author also quoted "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen" in an exceedingly carol, however modified it to: "God bless you, merry gentleman! might nothing you dismay!" moving the comma to before the merry! 

The Carol "We would like You a Merry Christmas [and a contented New Year]" is another previous carol from the 'West Country' (South West England) however was solely 1st printed in 1935 and this most likely confirmed the utilization of 'Merry Christmas' over 'Happy Christmas'.