Merry Christmas

[Pat Atkinson <patkinso@EOSC.OSSHE.EDU>]

Thanks to all of you who responded to my request. The list to date
follows:
Many of you requested that I post the responses to
my request for Merry Christmas in many languages, so
here are the responses:
Joyeux Noel!  (Merry Christmas in French)
Here in Houston it's Feliz Navidad in Spanish.....and Frankie eats candy
tamales at Christmas...they have a sweet red cream inside them and masa
and are decorated with candy sprinkles.  They are steamed like regular
tamales and then they unwrapped from th
 corn
              Guusje Moore
                 Librarian, Housman Elementary School
                           Houston, Texas
                          guusje@tenet.edu

From: BRUNERK@TEN-NASH.TEN.K12.TN.US (Katharine Bruner)
"Murry Christmus, y'all"
Chattanooga Tennessee

Espero que todos tengan una muy FELIZ NAVIDAD, y para sus familias, un
PROSPERO ANO NUEVO!
Si han estudiado espanol, ya veran que sin acentos, tildes, y signos de
exclamacion, el mensaje resulta muy extrano.  De todos modos, nos
acomodamos a las teclas del ingles...
Su amiga de Mexico,  Juanita de la Fuente

Selamat Hari Krismas...
This is not my native language, but one in which I'm living right now.  I'm
the MS/HS Librarian at the International School of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and
this is Happy Christmas in Bahasa.  Happy holidays.  Mary Rideout

In Swedish--God Jul
Linda Elliott
chico, ca

Aloha from Hawaii:
  We usually say Mele Kalikimaka, Haoli Makahikihou!
(Merry Christmas, Happy New Year)
Pat Bain

Hello out there!
Here in Iceland we say:
Gledileg jol (Merry Christmas)
Gledilegt ar (Happy New Year)
Kristin Bjorgvinsdottir (krb@ismennt.is)              tel 91-814022
Fjolbrautaskolinn vid Armula                          fax 91-680335
108  REYKJAVIK ICELAND
The  following is a greeting in Malayalam - the language
of the people of Kerala, India.
Merry X'mas

World Book in the Christmas article lists Merry Christmas from around the
world.  It will get you started/

Subject: Re: Merry Christmas
To: patkinso@eosc.osshe.edu (Pat Atkinson)

Buon Natale - Italian
Kung ho shen tan  - Chinese
Joyeux Noel  - French
Christmas Omedeto  -  Japanese
Stchastlivoye Rozhdestvo  - Russian
Cracium Fericit - Rumanian
Jlaedelig Jul - Norwegian
Feliz Navidad - Spanish
Vrolijke Kerstmis - Dutch
Boldog Karasconyi - Hungarian
Srecan Bozyc - Serbian
Mele Kalikimaka - Hawaiian
God Jul - Swedish
Frohe Weihnachten - German
Nodlaig nait cugat - Irish
Wesoilych Swiat - Polish
Maligayang Pasko - Filipino
Cestitamo bozyc - Yugoslavian

Geri Moulton Beechcroft High School Library
gmoulton@freenet.columbus.oh.us
6100 Beechcroft Road
Columbus,Ohio 43329        614-365-6800

Where are you?  "Happy Holidays, Y'all!" is the greeting we're sending in
our language..  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
Salem Junior High School           e-mail: salem_jhs@solinet.net
Cheri Harrison                     by phone: 1-404-593-2007
Library Media Specialists                    1-404-593-0113
5333 Salem Rd.
Lithonia, GA  30038

Merry Christmas:
  Finnish:  Hyvaa joulua   (the 2 a's in "Hyvaa" have umlauts)
  Estonian: Haid joulupuhi  (the a in "Haid" and the 3rd u in "joulupuhi"
 have umlauts; also, the o in "joulupuhi" has a tilde over it)
  Swedish: God jul

Merry Christmas,  Scott Jarvis