We don't have great records of pagan traditions practiced on Yule, but we have some glimpses here and there.
With feasting, drinking, mythical beings flying through the sky, solemn oaths sworn on a boar, and ritualistic blood sacrifice, early Yule wasn't so different from the modern Christmas.

The best lies always contain a kernel of truth

Note: My map does not include Northern Ireland, as Christmas figures there can be controversial.
But for the sake of completeness:
In Northern Ireland, the Christmas figure is called “Santa” or “Londonsanta”, depending on the background of the speaker. Make sure you don’t say the wrong one.

I think this is a very fitting etymology for a celebration of people being themselves.
Go forward, be open, be yourselves, and be proud of who you are.
Happy Pride Month everyone! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈
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It is a weird one. I imagine it sounds especially weird to me because, like most English people, "cross" and "sauce" don't even rhyme to me.

When a very polite and proper person swears, it always feels far more powerful than when a foulmouthed person swears.

This post is the poltical equivalent of a very polite person issuing a rare but very heartfelt swearword.

Good question, and one I have a good answer for:
The word *did* survive into Modern English, albeit dialectally, and even in those (Northern) dialects it is now archaic. It is "blow", and is pronounced as its spelling would suggest.

Nice to see a continuation of the tradition of creating episodes seemingly designed solely to fuck with Brennan

I love how the captions have changed "so ambitious" to "so obnoxious"

Basically it's a translation of the Hebrew word, not a borrowing from it.
Similar is the Biblical name "Peter", which is from Greek "Petros" (a name literally meaning "stone"), which is a calque of the original Hebrew name Kephas, also meaning "stone", given to the Apostle 'Peter' by Jesus.

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The word “grimace” is also cognate, coming from French “grimace”, from Frankish *grima (mask), from the Proto-Germanic *grīmô.

It could therefore be argued that Yəhōšūa Māšīaḥ (Jesus Christ) may be alternately translated into English as “Grimy Josh”.

But… probably best not.