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- Why we say Happy New Year without an article a, but we say I wish . . .
When I say "Happy New Year", it isn't a complete sentence, grammatical rules do not exactly apply to it It is just a phrase that we use to wish each other If you want to use the complete wish, you can use "May you have a happy new year" or "I wish you a happy new year"
- expressions - Why do some people say Happy New Years with an s at . . .
To my ear also "Happy New Year's" sounds American I would never say it nor would my friends or social group (British English speakers0 Happy New Year only Possibly because the focus is on the year not the day (to a British mind)
- Wish you happy new year or (a) happy new year [duplicate]
The phrase "We wish you a merry Christmas, and a happy New Year" occurs as a song lyric that is very familiar in America (and perhaps England as well?) However, the "we wish you a" is dropped completely when giving an oral well-wishing
- How should Merry Christmas and Happy New Year be capitalized?
Happy New Year! is a sentence by itself, and thus Happy should be capitalized It would not be necessary to capitalize "birthday" if you were saying "Happy birthday" instead of "Happy New Year" I wish you a merry Christmas and happy New Year is how I'd capitalize the words if they weren't being used on their own, but rather in a longer sentence
- Alternative to Merry Christmas [closed] - English Language Usage . . .
The common greeting for the new year is I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year Since Christmas has religious roots, it may not be suitable for people who are not religious Shortening
- Saying Happy new year and hope all is well [closed]
It's very much elided, with "hope all is well", but then "happy new year" is very much elided from "I wish you a happy new year" This degree of elision is normal and common with seasonal greetings and other such salutations
- Capitalization for email greeting: Good morning OR Good Morning
In an email greeting "Good morning" does the word "morning" need to be capitalized? Is it Good Morning or Good morning?
- capitalization - Should it be Happy Birthday! or Happy birthday . . .
I've always simply written it "Happy birthday!" but my wife recently said that "Birthday" should be capitalized as well What's grammatically correct?
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