It looks as though Santa Claus has already arrived off western Europe :-)

http://en.sat24.com/en

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On 14/12/2015 21:42, Norman wrote:
It looks as though Santa Claus has already arrived off western Europe :-)

http://en.sat24.com/en

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Well spotted Norman :-) Perhaps he should trade his sleigh for a
Jet(stream) ski though.
Dave

On Monday, 14 December 2015 21:42:25 UTC, Norman wrote:
It looks as though Santa Claus has already arrived off western Europe :-)

http://en.sat24.com/en

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Funny. I though only I noticed stuff like this, Norman. Santa arrived early in 2013 t00 - at the end of November in the Gulf of Genoa

http://1drv.ms/1SY2Jnm

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On Monday, 14 December 2015 21:42:25 UTC, Norman wrote:
It looks as though Santa Claus has already arrived off western Europe :-)

http://en.sat24.com/en

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Funny. I thought only I noticed stuff like this, Norman. Santa arrived early in 2013 - at the end of November in the Gulf of Genoa

http://1drv.ms/1SY2Jnm

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On 14/12/2015 21:42, Norman wrote:
It looks as though Santa Claus has already arrived off western Europe :-)

I wonder when we started calling him Santa Claus instead of Father
Christmas....

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On 14/12/2015 21:42, Norman wrote:
It looks as though Santa Claus has already arrived off western Europe :-)

I wonder when we started calling him Santa Claus instead of Father
Christmas....


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On Tuesday, 15 December 2015 08:40:39 UTC, Nick Gardner wrote:
On 14/12/2015 21:42, Norman wrote:
It looks as though Santa Claus has already arrived off western Europe :-)

I wonder when we started calling him Santa Claus instead of Father
Christmas....

Hi, Nick,
Lazy, drawly way, probably American (!) of saying Saint Nicholas. I assume it began around the time of the Clement Clark Moore poem The night before Christmas. Written in 1822
Ken
Copley

Lazy, drawly way, probably American (!) of saying Saint Nicholas. I assume it began around the time of the Clement Clark Moore poem The night before Christmas. Written in 1822.

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American, yes, but not such a lazy or drawly diminutive. Just a simple Anglicized (or Americanized) step from the Dutch "Sante Klaas" / "Sinterklaas", noted as early as 1773.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Santa+Claus


Stephen.

On 15/12/2015 10:18, Ken Cook wrote:
I assume it began around the time of the Clement Clark Moore poem The
night before Christmas. Written in 1822
Ken
Copley
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This being the poem (well a slightly corrupted 50's version with
Rudolph) that my parents read to me as a child and I had to read to my
daughters every Christmas Eve (till they were about 30 if they were
around!) and is now read to my grandsons. Happy days :-)
Dave