![The Brits have it right: forget Happy Holidays, just wish people Merry Christmas The Brits have it right: forget Happy Holidays, just wish people Merry Christmas](https://mtic.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/A-Christmas-Fair-008-310x168.jpg)
Heather Long: I’d rather be able to wish people in the US a Merry Christmas this week without having to worry if they’ll be offended. A colleague made a curious statement when she returned to New York recently from London, “Everything was so Christmas-y there.”