Merry Christmas

[kitvb1]

We wish all our customers and visitors a safe, peaceful and merry Christmas.

Your EcofIT Team

[nlpgrusla]

I do apologise for instantly posting a subject as soon as I have registered, but I really am struggling with a question in my pre course assessment.

it asks: "If a student asks if you can have Happy Christmas, Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday, why cant you say Merry Birthday?

Having discussed this point with many people I have really only come up with the idea that Merry has some sort of seasonal connitation, but there must e more of a reason. Or possibly that there is no grammatical reason why we shold not say it, we just simply dont.

Id be very interested to hear your thoughts on this, or if you have come across any other incidents like this in the classroom.

Thank you in advance,
Lucy

[kitvb1]

I think it has more of a seasonal conotation. Here is a good link to check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MERRY_CHRISTMAS#History_of_the_phrase