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Many ways in which New Yorkers say "Merry Christmas" or its equivalent. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 3 older comments, and then…
• Seth Sawyers said:

  This is really great.

• allan56 said:

  It's interesting that they use the now somewhat archaic term 'Ruthenian' to refer to Ukrainian. The Chinese characters are (in my bad Romanization) 'Gung tzu ye su sing daan'. Also odd that they refer to 'christian hebrew' as a language.

• Walter Parenteau said:

  I noticed Christian Hebrew also. Very interesting. I am impressed by the quality of the Chinese characters and I love that Esperanto is the main central language at the top of the page--as if lots of New Yorkers were speaking it!

• Jim Flanagan said:

  "Christian Hebrew" probably because a simple "Hebrew" would most likely be taken as "Jewish Hebrew" which is incompatible for "Merry Christmas".....

• darek.jedzok said:

  There is a small mistake in Czech greetings, the whole Polish text is wrong, too - there should be "wesolych swiat" (wesołych świąt) :)