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It is holiday in British English and vacation in American English. Is it true or false?
The situation is a bit more complicated:
In America:
holidays (="Holy Days"): eg. Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, Independence Day. Not official national holidays (although most people do not work).
vacations: breaks from work once or twice a year
In Britain:
holidays: Christmas, Easter, etc. They are official national holidays (so called bank holidays).
holidays: breaks from work once or twice a year
So the British call both type of days holidays.
And have you heard of the term staycations?
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Holidays or Vacations?
It is holiday in British English and vacation in American English. Is it true or false?
The situation is a bit more complicated:
In America:
holidays (="Holy Days"): eg. Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, Independence Day. Not official national holidays (although most people do not work).
vacations: breaks from work once or twice a year
In Britain:
holidays: Christmas, Easter, etc. They are official national holidays (so called bank holidays).
holidays: breaks from work once or twice a year
So the British call both type of days holidays.
And have you heard of the term staycations?
More holidays ...
More vocabulary ...
- Things You Like And Dislike About School
Things you like and dislike about school School is a place I have to go to five days a week, except on Saturdays and Sundays and the holidays. I spend a lot of time in school. Thus I cannot help liking some aspects and disliking other aspects of it. I...
- What Is Your Favorite Time Of Year?
What is your favorite time of year? Why? My favorite time of the year is naturally the time when I have the most fun. To me, that time of the year falls during the December holidays, or rather, it starts during the last term of school. It may sound strange...
- A Class Excursion
A class excursion It was a bright Saturday morning. The school holidays had just begun and my form teacher, Mrs. Zhang, had promised to bring the whole class on an excursion to the Botanic Garden. A bus was chartered to take us there. We assembled at...
- 2015 Public Holidays In England
In England and Wales a bank holiday tends automatically to be a public holiday and the day is generally observed as a holiday. In Scotland this may be different sometimes.. Public Holidays 2015 Date Day Holiday Countries...
- Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells ...
Hello everyone! It's almost the end of the year, the time when we are all preparing to draw a line and recapitulate what we have already done and what we have not in 2014. For all those plans, ambitions and promises we made a year ago... It is also...