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It's simply a large grouping of multiple holidays in a fairly short
period of time. You have the winter solstice holidays such as
christmas, hanukkah, (partial list
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_winter_festivals#Muslim">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_winter_festivals#Muslim</a> )and then
the various pre-christian traditions that were christianized such as
yule. Then you add the new years holiday following only a week behind
and you have a perfect recipe for using the word "Holiday" in its
plural form. In the US, the other major holidays all fall within their
own month. <br>
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<pre wrap="">On 16/12/2007, ben <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:benboc@lineone.net"><benboc@lineone.net></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Can someone tell me why Americans refer to christmas as the 'holiday
season'?
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Maybe because the word holiday originally meant meant 'holy day'?
Christian activists co-oped earlier midwinter festivals which were
literally holy days to the jews, pagans and others of the time.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holiday">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holiday</a>
Heavy splashings,
Thee Nymphomation
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