On Jun 14, 2008, at 11:54 AM, Richard Travers wrote:
Or more commonly 'xian' = X (Christ) + ian. xtian has too mant t's.


Theoretically, yes, but "Xtian" is much easier to read, without which the abbreviation is pointless, and "Xtian" is, for example, the spelling preferred by C. S. Lewis (in his letters, of course, not his published works).

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John W Kennedy
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
  -- G. K. Chesterton.  "The Man Who Was Thursday"




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