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Bookmark or Share- How should "Merry Christmas" and "Happy New Year" be capitalized?Happy New Year! is a sentence by itself, and thus Happy should be capitalized. It would not be necessary to capitalize "birthday" if you were saying "Happy birthday" instead of "Happy New Year". I wish you a merry Christmas and happy New Year. is how I'd capitalize the words if they weren't being used on their own, but rather in a longer sentence.
- How many articles should go in "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!"?I'd generally write "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!", or maybe possibly "A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year." Of course, in these politically-correct times, the correct greeting is "Happy Unspecified Holiday to you, unless the very idea of holidays offends you, in which case please pretend I said nothing and walked past you in silence".
- Why is it “Merry” Christmas, but “Happy” New Year?That would square well with the Merry Christmas and Happy New Year usage. The definitions of merry I found here and here , and for happy here and here . It might also be worth noting that merry is used in phrases like play merry hell , play Merry Andrew and the alternative meaning of merry (meaning 4) meaning somewhat inebriated, which are all ...
- How to wish someone "Happy New Year" in a professional, formal and ...And finally, Wish you and your family a very Happy New Year. Looking forward to working with you next year. Regards, or. Dear X, Wish you and your family a very Happy New Year. Regarding the project matter for discussion bla bla. Regards, Either of these should be fine.
- greetings - Saying Happy new year and hope all is well - English ...It's very much elided, with "hope all is well", but then "happy new year" is very much elided from "I wish you a happy new year". This degree of elision is normal and common with seasonal greetings and other such salutations.
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