British actor Albert Finney waves his cane while playing the title role in “Scrooge,” at Shepperton Studios, near London, Jan. 15, 1970. (AP Photo/R. Dear)
The Associated Press held a style chat Tuesday on holiday terms with lifestyles editor Julie Rubin. Taken in their parts or as a whole, these style chats always feel useful and a bit funny: “Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus would also be known as the Clauses.”
Here are some tweets from the holiday style chat.
Christmas, Christmas Day and Christmas Eve are always capitalized.
— AP Stylebook (@APStylebook) December 2, 2014
Christmastime is one word.
— AP Stylebook (@APStylebook) December 2, 2014
Hanukkah is the eight-day Jewish Festival of Lights starting this year on the evening of Dec. 16.
— AP Stylebook (@APStylebook) December 2, 2014
Lowercase Christmas tree and other seasonal terms with Christmas: card, wreath, carol, etc.
#APStyleChat
— AP Stylebook (@APStylebook) December 2, 2014
It's "Bah! Humbug!" Ebenezer Scrooge's denunciation of holiday sentiment in "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. #APStyleChat
— AP Stylebook (@APStylebook) December 2, 2014
"Auld Lang Syne" is sung to greet the New Year, poem by Robert Burns set to Scottish music. #APStyleChat
— AP Stylebook (@APStylebook) December 2, 2014
Feliz Navidad is the Spanish greeting for Christmas. #APStylebookChat
— AP Stylebook (@APStylebook) December 2, 2014
Kriss (not Kris) Kringle is derived from the German word, Christkindl, or baby Jesus. #APStyleChat
— AP Stylebook (@APStylebook) December 2, 2014
Kwanzaa is the African-American and Pan-African celebration of family, community and culture. It's Dec. 26 – Jan.1. #APStyleChat
— AP Stylebook (@APStylebook) December 2, 2014
Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus would also be known as the Clauses. #APStyleChat @TCoughlin
— AP Stylebook (@APStylebook) December 2, 2014
Since last month, there have also been some good warnings from various media outlets about avoiding holiday cliches. My colleagues Ben Mullin and Andrew Beaujon wrote about warnings from The New York Times and NPR, and still Mullin found a lot of ho-ho-headlines. In November, the AP held a holiday food style chat. The next one, which will be about parenting (and so probably pretty funny) on Jan. 6.
Here’s the AP’s full holiday style guide.
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