" We are entrusted, you must know, with the revision of the English Dictionary. On the evidence of the Liverpool find of Christmas cards, in which occurred such couplets as:
Just to hope the day keeps fine
For you and your this Christmas time,
and:
I hope this stocking's in your line
When stars shine bright at Christmas-time
I hold that "Christmas-time" was often pronounced "Christmas-tine", and that this is a dialect variant of the older "Christmas-tide". Quant denies this, with a warmth that is unusual in him.'
'Quant is right. "
― Robert Graves , Seven Days in New Crete
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