When to wish merry christmas

Christmas Around the World

As a blossoming linguist, are you hoping to learn how to say merry Christmas in many different languages? Here are some examples of words to wish you a merry Christmas in other languages:

• Afrikaans - Geseënde Kersfees!
• Albanian - Gëzuar Krishlindjet!
• Arabic - Eid Milad Saeid!
• Cantonese - Sing Daan Fai Lok
• Croatian - Sretan Božić!
• Czech - Veselé Vánoce
• Danish - Glaedelig Jul!
• Dutch - Zalig Kerstfeest!
• Estonian - Häid Jõule!
• Farsi - کریسمس مبارک or Krismas Mobaarak!
• French - Joyeux Noël!
• Gaelic - Nollaig Shona Duit!
• German - Frohe Weihnachten!
• Greek - καλά Χριστούγεννα! or Kala Christougena!
• Hawaiian - Mele Kalikimaka!
• Icelandic - Gleðileg jól!
• Italian - Buon Natale!
• Japanese - Merii Kurisumasu!
• Korean - Sung Tan Chuk Ha!
• MandarinChinese - Sheng dan kuai le!
• Polish - Wesołych Świąt!
• Portuguese - Feliz Natal!
• Punjabi - Karisama te nawāṃ sāla khušayāṃwālā hewe!
• Romanian - Craciun Fericit!
• Russian - Schastlivogo Rozhdestva!
• Spanish - Feliz Navidad!
• Thai - S̄uk̄hs̄ạnt̒ wạn khris̄t̒mās̄!
• Vietnamese - Chuc Mung Giang Sinh!

Now, it's time to practice your pronunciation. For an interactive way to practice all your new glad tidings, check out this YouTube video. It'll make sure your pronunciation is on point.

Other Ways to Wish Merry Christmas

Maybe saying merry Christmas in many different languages isn't what you were looking for. Are you simply seeking out some alternative ways to say merry Christmas in English? Here are some ways to spice up your holiday messages this season:

• Best wishes for a wonderful New Year
• Celebrate the wonder of Christmas
• Glad tidings to you and your loved ones
• Happy Christmas
• Happy Holidays
• Here's to a happy and healthy New Year
• Holiday Blessings
• May all your Christmas wishes come true
• Peace, joy and love this Christmas
• Sending you warm winter wishes
• 'Twas the Night Before Christmas...
• Wishing you Christmas cheer

Using the word "greetings," you might say:

• Christmas Greetings
• Festive Greetings
• Greetings of the Season
• Holiday Greetings
• Season's Greetings
• Warm Holiday Greetings
• Warmest Greetings
• Yuletide Greetings

To have fun, consider:

• Get into the Christmas spirit - or wine or beer
• Happy Festivus (from Seinfeld)
• Happy Yule
• Ho Ho Ho!
• Jingle all the way
• Keep calm and enjoy Christmas
• Merry Everything
• Season's Eatings
• Sparkle and shine this Christmastime
• There's snow-body I'd rather spend Christmas with

And since holly is a big part of Christmas, you could also say:

• Have a holly, Jolly Christmas
• Happy Holly-days!

Finally, feel free to kick things off by quoting a famous Christmas carol:

• Deck the Halls!
• Do You Hear What I Hear?
• Hark! The Herald Angels Sing!
• Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
• Here Comes Santa Claus
• It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
• It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
• Jingle Bells
• Let it Snow
• Let There Be Peace on Earth
• O, Come All Ye Faithful
• O, Holy Night
• 'Tis the Season
• We Wish You a Merry Christmas

Have a Holly, Jolly Christmas

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Christmas cards are on the table, stamps and envelopes ready and all that’s left to do is to add a nice message to wish your friends and family Merry Christmas.

We can certainly help with the last part! Here is a selection of 50 Merry Christmas wishes and messages you can use for your family and friends.

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Merry Christmas Wishes and Messages

1. Christmas is about spending time with family and friends. It’s about creating happy memories that will last a lifetime. Merry Christmas to you and your family!
2. May the closeness of friends, the comfort of home, and the unity of our nation, renew your spirits this festive season. Merry Christmas to your family.
3. ‘Tis the season to wish one another joy and love and peace. These are my wishes for you, Merry Christmas our dear friends, may you feel the love this special day.
4. May this festive season sparkle and shine, may all of your wishes and dreams come true, and may you feel this happiness all year round. Merry Christmas!
5. You make the stars shine brighter and the winter days warmer just by being in my life. Merry Christmas to my favorite person in the world.
6. A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm and we all go through it together. Let’s buckle up and enjoy the ride.
7. Celebrate the Wonder and the Joy of the Festive Season. Merry Christmas
8. To a joyful present and a well-remembered past. Best wishes for Happy Holidays and a magnificent New Year.
9. May this Christmas end the present year on a cheerful note and make way for a fresh and bright New Year. Here’s wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
10. This festive season is so much more than Christmas parties and gift giving. May your Christmas be filled with the true miracles and meaning of this beautiful time.
11. May you feel all the love and joy I have for you throughout this festive season and all year round. Having you as my friend brings me great joy.
12. Best friends are to a friendship like Christmas is to the other celebrations: always on top. Have a merry one.
13. Christmas is a special time to enjoy with all your loved ones, spreading divinity and cheer around, Merry Christmas and a happy new year!
14. Christmas is really a time for families to unite. It is a time to share all the laughter and cheers. Without you, this family will not be called a family. You complete our lives. Merry Christmas . . . !!!
15. For your Christmas time, I wish you many blessings, much happiness, and even more love I am grateful for you and your thoughtfulness.
16. May your heart and home be filled with all of the joys the festive season brings. Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year!
17. During this festive season of giving, let us take time to slow down and enjoy the simple things. May this wonderful time of the year touch your heart in a special way. Wishing you much happiness not just today, but throughout the New Year.
18. May the joy and peace of Christmas be with you all through the Year. Wishing you a season of blessings from heaven above. Happy Christmas!!
19. May your world be filled with warmth and good cheer this Holy season, and throughout the year.
20. Wish you a Merry Christmas and may this festival bring abundant joy and happiness in your life!
21. Warmest greetings of this festive season and best wishes for Happiness in the New Year
22. Warmest thoughts and best wishes for a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year. May peace, love and prosperity follow you always
23. The true heart of Christmas is one of wonder and warmth. May any festive stress you feel fade away and be replaced with this. Merry Christmas!
24. I hope Santa is good to you this year because you only deserve the best. Merry Christmas from our family to yours.
25. Christmas is the time to touch every heart with love and care. Christmas is the time to receive and send blessings. It is the time to breathe the magic in the air. Wishing you a very Merry Christmas.
26. I’m wishing you all the blessings of a wonderful Christmastime and I hope you feel all the job this holiday season has to offer.
27. Beneath the hustle and bustle of the festive season, there is the true beauty of connecting with loved ones. May this beauty and joy lift you up during Christmas and the New Year!
28. May all the sweet magic of Christmas conspire to gladden your heart and fill every desire. Merry Christmas!
29. Fill your heart with the warmth that is the closeness of your family, friends and loved ones this holiday season and forever.
30. Let the spirit of love gently fill our hearts and homes. In this loveliest of celebrations may you find many reasons for happiness.
31. There are some people who want to throw their arms around you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas. Which one are you?
32. Having you as my friend makes me feel as if it is Christmas every day.  Merry Christmas to my dear friend, may this season be filled with joy and laughter for you and your family.
33. Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year — and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority. ~W.J. Cameron
34. The one who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. Celebrate the true meaning of Christmas and embrace the warmth of your closest ones. Merry Christmas
35. A silent night, a star above, a blessed gift of hope and love. A Merry Christmas to you and your whole family.
36. May your heart and home be filled with all of the joys the festive season brings. Here is a toast to a Merry Christmas and prosperous New Year!
37. May this Christmas end the present year on a cheerful note and make way for a fresh and bright New Year. Here’s wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
38. May your Christmas sparkle with moments of love, laughter and goodwill, And may the year ahead be full of contentment and joy.
39. On Christmas, there’s a reason to be happy and a reason to smile, and there’s a reason why I’m sending Christmas wishes your way. You’re it.
40. Wishing you a joyous Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year.
41. One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don’t clean it up too quickly. Savor and enjoy the moment. Merry Christmas!
42. The Gift of Christmas is a precious reminder that we are loved! I am so lucky to have someone I love so much at my side this festive season.
43. A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise at all but softly gives itself away; while quite unselfish,it grows small.
44. A little smile, a word of cheer a bit of love from someone near a little gift from one held dear, best wishes for the coming year.
45. Christmas is not a time for celebration, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and kindness, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
46. There is no greater gift this festive season than spending time with family all around the Christmas tree.
47. May the good times and treasures of the present become the golden memories of tomorrow. Wish you lots of love, joy, and happiness. MERRY CHRISTMAS
48. Christmas is a special time to enjoy with, All your loved ones, To spread the divinity and cheer around, Merry Christmas and a happy new year!
49. The gift of love. The gift of peace. The gift of happiness.  May all these be yours at Christmas.
50. May you have the spirit of Christmas which is Peace, the gladness of Christmas which is Hope, and the Heart of Christmas which is Love.

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Here's the original, emphasis added...

It's 28th of December. Should you say "Merry Christmas" or "Happy New Year" to your friends? I am so confused of what time of day it is right now and so the festivals.

"The Controversy"

To answer this, we first need to acknowledge "the controversy" so we can side-step it. The controversy over what one "should" say is well documented in many other places on the web, including Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_controversy. Depending on who you say it to, they may be pleased, neutral, or offended. There is no definitive, authoritative, StackExchange type English answer to what one "should" or "shouldn't" say in this regard.

Answer to the question: What should I say on December 28th?

The main question is what one should say on December 28th as a holiday greeting between Christmas and New Years Day. This too has no definitive, authoritative Stack Exchange type answer. People can provide their own thoughts and ideas about common practice they have observed, but that is neither definitive nor authoritative.

Are there any guidelines on Usage?

There are standard guides on English, including the use of holiday expressions, but any such standard has some cultural, political, business or other subjective basis, and has some relative objective. Some standards are based on maximizing the probability of appeasing the majority of a certain population such as a company's customers. Others are concerned with minimizing objections among minority religious and secular groups. Some standards are designed to avoid legal issues. But there is no single, authoritative standard for what one "should" say within free-speech English.¹

So what can we say about the phrase?

• We can indicate whether something is correct or incorrect English. All such combinations or permutations given in OP's post (and other posts/comments) are valid in terms of English language. One may say "Merry Christmas!" or "Happy New Year!" or "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!" and each would be a grammatically correct utterance in the English language within AmE/BrE. All are correct. None is incorrect. In fact, you can say "Merry Christmas" or "Happy New Year" at any point during the entire year, and still be grammatically correct!

• Why is it correct? Grammatically, "Merry Christmas!" is traditionally considered to be the short form of "I wish you have a merry Christmas!" or "I wish for you a merry Christmas!" which is a wish, which is an imperative sentence. The short form, which is also similar to a exclamatory phrase, is accepted/correct in spoken language, informal writing, and titles such as found on banners and holiday cards. Any wish with correct form is grammatically correct (including the contorted, "Happy Christmas and Merry New Years!") Linguistic correctness is relative to common usage, and on this basis "Merry Christmas!" is correct in the informal register. (However, "Happy Christmas" would generally be noticed as different, odd, a playful change-from-normal, or an error.)

• The traditional categorization of holiday greetings (wishes) as imperative sentences has been debated in modern treatments. The new focus has considered an additional dimension of function instead of just form. "Merry Christmas" and the like could be considered a speech act that serves a social function. To learn more about different philosophies of the grammar/function/meaning of holiday greetings and other language constructs, see phatic expressions, pragmatics, and philosophy of language.

Summary

There is no definitive rule or guideline regarding what to say in the interim between Dec 25th and Jan 1st. All options indicated are valid English statements. Other valid suggestions are posed in various answers and comments. The choice is yours, and will likely be based on your own beliefs, your assessment of the cultural group you are talking to, and your desired objective.

^{1. In a more general sense, there are some definitive and authoritative laws regarding what one should or shouldn't say in certain circumstances. For example, in "free speech" countries, it's typically illegal to shout "Fire!" in a crowded theater when there is no such fire. Such a statement, while grammatically fine English, would likely land a person in jail and should not be uttered. Contractual agreements often create an obligation that mandates some form of speech or restraint thereof. For example, one is often contractually obligated to refrain from saying something negative about the company they work for and refrain from divulging company secrets. Also, there are certain laws that may compel one to state facts or professional opinions in a court of law. Similarly, in some non-XYZ or anti-XYZ (XYZ={Christian, Religious}) countries, saying "Merry Christmas" may be against the law and incur severe penalties.}