What Bill was really thinking
As Christmas creeps ever closer, the mind refuses to stay focused on work. So instead we’ll ponder what Bill Gates might have been thinking when he named Windows XP.
Grammar Girl Mignon Fogarty has been posting seasonal grammar tips, and one related to the use of “Xmas” in signs instead of “Christmas” caught my eye. She explains that Xmas actually has a religious origin:
“In Greek, the letter ‘chi’ is written as an X, and chi is the first letter of the Greek word for ‘Christ.’ Greeks sometimes abbreviated ‘Christ’ as ‘X.’ For example, they abbreviated ‘Christ savior’ as ‘XP.’ (‘P’ is the symbol for the Greek letter ‘rho,’ which is the first letter of the word ’savor’ in Greek.)”
Am I the only one who thought of Windows XP?
