Why Merry Christmas, Not Merry New year

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Why we say

Merry Christmas ?

and not

Merry New Year and Merry Birthday

innocent sort of puzzle for me
  • Profile picture of the author MikeTucker
    Timing.

    Christmas is a wee bit older...
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  • Profile picture of the author joseph7384
    If that is puzzling you, then you have to much time on your hands.
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Connotation of the words and events.

    Merry is joviality - a celebration, if you will.

    Happy is a longer term idea more of fulfillment rather than joviality. Christmas is celebration - Birthdays and New Years are milestones and people fashion hopes and goals around milestones - thus happiness rather than mere celebration.
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    Sal
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