In the spirit of Scrooge: the 12 ‘Bah! Humbugs’ of Christmas

By Juanita Greville
December 15 2018 - 3:00am
Picture: Eric Risberg/AP
Picture: Eric Risberg/AP

We have the great Victorian author Charles Dickens to thank for one of the immortal lines of Christmas. Ebenezer Scrooge (a word now synonymous with being a tightwad) sets the scene in the the early pages of A Christmas Carol for his miserliness. “Bah!” said Scrooge, “Humbug!” when greeted with festive cheer. “What reasons have you to be merry? You’re poor enough.”

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