2014年12月26日 · The phrase "We wish you a merry Christmas, and a happy New Year" occurs as a song lyric that is very familiar in America (and perhaps England as well?) However, the "we wish you a" is dropped completely when giving an oral well-wishing. Generally, one simply exclaims: Merry Christmas! and Happy New Year!

2012年12月25日 · Christmas is a time of celebration and therefore a 'Merry Christmas' would be appropriate. A new year, as in 'Happy New Year', on other hand, extends over a whole year (and further on) and as such the sense of good luck, good fortune and prosperity provided by Happy would be appropriate.

2018年11月26日 · As 2019 approaches, I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year! On whether merry and happy should be capitalized, see e.g. here (conclusion: probably both capitalized and non-capitalized versions are OK, as long as both merry and happy are treated equaly). Examples of usage of happy New Year 20xx. Here are examples of such usage (e.g ...

I'd generally write "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!", or maybe possibly "A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year." Of course, in these politically-correct times, the correct greeting is "Happy Unspecified Holiday to you, unless the very idea of holidays offends you, in which case please pretend I said nothing and walked past you in silence".

Happy New Year! is a sentence by itself, and thus Happy should be capitalized. It would not be necessary to capitalize "birthday" if you were saying "Happy birthday" instead of "Happy New Year". I wish you a merry Christmas and happy New Year. is how I'd capitalize the words if they weren't being used on their own, but rather in a longer sentence.

Of course, it might be seen as insensitive by some, but a very good option seems to be the phrase "Merry Christmas, and a happy New Year.". This is a fairly good phrase to use if you want to: Make it clear that you believe in Jesus Christ. Inform the listener that you wish them good cheer throughout the dark month of December.

2015年12月25日 · "Happy merry Christmas" is not idiomatic and a bit nonsensical. "Happy" and "merry" are near-synonyms, and so stringing them together (while not technically illegal grammar) is "redundant". (Cue the voice of doom!) You may say "happy Christmas" or, more commonly in the US, "merry Christmas". –

2012年12月27日 · To answer your question, I'm not familiar with any well-established counterpart to the "Merry Christmas" or "Happy Christmas" you often hear in the days leading up to Dec 25th. – J.R. Commented Dec 27, 2012 at 10:46

2013年12月18日 · Greetings like "Seasons Greetings" exist to not mention Christmas specifically, because that is noninclusive of non-Christians. In the U.S., you say "Merry Christmas" instead of "Happy Christmas" but that is an anomaly I can't explain. All other holidays and occasions are greeted "Happy __".

2014年12月13日 · Rather, as this piece in Forbes suggests, the tussle over "Merry Christmas" is about the attempt by retailers to entice customers without also offending them. According to this Rasmussen poll, 68% of Americans, c. 2012, prefer "Merry Christmas" to "Happy Holidays". It's merely an assumption, but a safe one, that the rise of evangelicals in the ...