New Christmas is coming, what do you call santa claus?

Sure, it's fine to call him Santa.

We begin Santa and Claus with capital letters.

Okay.
Thank you both

He's easy - he wouldn't mind santa, santa claus, claus, Mr. claus, St. Nick, Kris, Kris Kringle, Mr. Kringle, even fat boy I'm sure he'd get a chuckle over.

I think Santa Claus was invented in America, probably by Hollywood.

But he's certainly caught on, big time.

Not really - it seems to have originated in Europe - but you may be right to a certain point the name Santa Claus seems to have started in the US>

http://www.arthuriana.co.uk/xmas/

Yes really. Read your own material, should you doubt it.

Irony is wasted on them, isn't it?

" but you may be right to a certain point the name Santa Claus seems to have started in the US"

My quote so I am not doubting - just the origin of St. Nick where Santa dervived from...

"Although St Nicholas is usually acknowledged as the 'original Santa Claus', we actually know vanishingly little about him for certain; indeed, his very existence has sometimes been called into question, due to the lack of secure references to him in contemporary sources. All that can be said with any degree of confidence is that St Nicholas probably lived in the fourth-century in the Lycian port of Myra, in the south-west of modern Turkey, and that he was a bishop."

Turkey is not the US.

And that's all I said.

I know all about St Nicholas, and der Nicolaus in Germany, and the differing customs and legends associated with them, but what we now refer to as Santa Claus was invented in the USA.
Developed from European antecedents of course, but I deliberately did not refer to them.

well then you didn't read my comment thoroughly as I agreed in it that the name santa claus started in the US.

so ditto back about not reading...

This could go on for some time.

A Merry Christmas to you and yours.

And a happy festivus for the rest of us.