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by lewisflude 4936 days ago
Love the site, but I found the lack of the word Christmas a little weird. Not that I'm a Christian or anything, just that I don't identify with the term Holiday Season here in the UK.
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The word 'holidize' seems to have been in use by marketroids for a while, see eg: http://design.inkzoo.com/how-to-holidize-your-logo-design-to...

...and you'll see from the examples there that it's not just Christmas - Halloween, Thanksgiving, whatever. In my day job I see this done a lot for product sales, there are logos/backgrounds queued up for some holiday or other most of the year.

As an American who lived in the UK for a number of years, I can attest that we Americans are much more wary in these post-politically correct age of using the word Christmas for the holidays than the Brits. For better or worse, I dunno.