Chrimbo offence

Sir, – I object to Margaret Butler's assertion that those who use the word Chrimbo are "trying to demean the core of Christian belief".

While I share her distaste with the word (I find it irritating in the extreme), I am of the opinion that by and large the users of the word Chrimbo are merely ignoring the mystical significance of the word Christmas as attributed by believers in Christ. Is that a sin? – Yours, etc,

KEVIN CHRISTOPHER

(Chrimboopher),

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Coolree,

Wexford.