12 Posts of Christmas, 2025 (Day 8)

Make your Christmas more festive by understanding the festive origins of festive words!

Have an Etymological Christmas!

This Year’s Previous “Posts of Christmas”:

Day 1 – ‘Tis the season of… Padoru

Day 2 – Nothing quite says “Christmas” like gingerbread… made in the Medieval way.

Day 3 – The causes, types, and effects of these crystalline wonders.

Day 4 – It’s not the Christmas season until the gun-toting maids dress up for the season!

Day 5 – The classic Christmas story “A Christmas Carol” gets the RiffTrax treatment.

Day 6 – It ain’t really Christmas until the Victoria Christmas Pudding it set on fire.

Day 7 – Santa has a counterpart who visits the naughty children named Krampus, who is sometimes depicted as female.