Public debates and arguments over the use of the term Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas have added fuel to the fire, according to The Voice. So why do people keep using Xmas? Simply put ...

During the first Christmas radio address, King George V used the word happy instead of merry (you can actually listen to the original recording here, which is pretty cool).

The theme gave a boost to a word that has been lagging lately in the English language: “merry.” As with our Christmas ornaments, we pick “merry” out of our closets this time of year, blow ...

In a word: Merry Chrismahanukwanzakah to all! The stories behind our holiday words are gifts to all word lovers.

More than a century later, another Englishman reported that "drunk" was a more polite word for what "the vulgar call merry." In Elizabethan England, "Merry Andrew" was a clown.

The word merry appears 28 times in the Bible. The references vary, but basically say the same thing: “A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance;” or “A merry heart doeth good like a ...

Target prohibited store employees from using the phrase "Merry Christmas" with customers: False. Target eschewed use of the word "Christmas" in its promotional material at the start of the 2005 ...

The theme gave a boost to a word that has been lagging lately in the English language: “merry.” As with our Christmas ornaments, we pick “merry” out of our closets this time of year, blow ...

Frustrated residents have called for traditional Christmas greetings to be reinstated on community decorations, with some resorting to vandalism.

The final 26% of respondents pronounce two of the three words the same, in most cases "marry" and "Mary," with "merry" being the odd one out. You can see the whole results here.