Merry Christmas 2024: To wish each other on Christmas, people do not wish each other by saying Happy Christmas like other festivals but by saying Merry Christmas. If someone wishes by saying or writing Happy Christmas, then people start laughing at it. Whereas if you wish someone by writing Happy Christmas instead of Merry Christmas, then there is nothing wrong in it.

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Merry Christmas 2024: Happy Christmas

As Christmas approaches, you will start hearing a voice…. Merry Christmas. Messages written in the same way will keep coming to wish you a Merry Christmas. You will also reply to them by writing Merry Christmas. But have you ever wondered why Merry Christmas is written before Christmas instead of Happy Christmas like festivals like Happy Holi, Happy Diwali and Happy Easter?

If you do not know this, then no problem, today we will tell you why Merry Christmas is written instead of Happy Christmas on Christmas.

Difference between happy: merry Christmas 2024

If seen, it is not wrong to write Happy Christmas instead of Merry Christmas. According to information, in the 18th and 19th centuries, people used to say Happy Christmas to each other to wish Christmas. In England, many people still wish by saying Happy Christmas instead of Merry Christmas. King George V of England also used this word.

Not only this, Queen Elizabeth of Britain also used to like the word Happy more than Mary. Along with this, many other upper class people of Britain also used the word Happy instead of Mary. But despite this, today people prefer to write and speak Merry Christmas. But if we talk about the difference between the words Mary and Happy, then both the words are used to express happiness. But according to some experts, people’s emotions are more attached to the word Mary.

Charles Dickens is behind the word Merry

Famous writer Charles Dickens is believed to be behind the word Merry. It is said that he popularized this word through his book ‘A Christmas Carol’ published about 175 years ago. However, while wishing Christmas, if you say Happy Christmas instead of Merry Christmas to someone, then there is nothing wrong in it.