Merry has more behavior to it, being active or raucous, according to CountryLiving. Queen Elizabeth wished her citizens a "Happy Christmas," rather than a merry one.

‘Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays’ Even Has an Animated Music Video If the original music video doesn’t do it for you, ‘NSync released an animated version in November 2023.

Brian Earl’s Christmas Past: The Fascinating Stories Behind Our Favorite Holiday’s Traditions traces the first known instance of “Merry Christmas” to a 16th-century letter from a bishop to ...

On Christmas day, Patrick Shyu, a YouTuber with nearly 1.5 million subscribers and former tech lead for Google and Meta, provided one of the Christmas season’s most spot-on Ebeneezer Scrooge ...

In 2021, as he left office, Trump declared he had triumphed against the war on Christmas: “When I started campaigning, I said, ‘You’re going to say “Merry Christmas” again.’ ...

10. Kenny G Even as an instrumental, Kenny G’s beguiling, jazzy version of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” released in 1994, is one of the most powerful.

This letter pre-dates “All I Want for Christmas Is You” and also Tim Allen’s The Santa Clause. This was Christmas 1990, people. That was almost 32 years ago.

During a campaign rally in August 2024, former U.S. President Donald Trump told rallygoers, "She doesn't want anybody saying 'Merry Christmas.'" ...

The Song Made the Billboard Top 40 in the U.S. “Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays” was the only single from Home for Christmas. It charted at No. 37 on Billboard’s Top Mainstream chart.