Holiday/holidays/vacation

At 21:05:50 on Sun, 19 Jun 2005, Arthur (Email Removed) wrote in :
[nq:1]Could anyone please explain to me the difference in usage of "holiday" / "holidays"? And am I right that the word "vacation" is the American equivalent of British "holiday(s)"?[/nq]
Yes, and the Americans say "holidays" where in the UK we say "Christmas".

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[nq:1]Hello. Could anyone please explain to me the difference in usage of "holiday" / "holidays"? And am I right that the word "vacation" is the American equivalent of British "holiday(s)"? Thank you![/nq]
In British English, people go "on holiday" when referring to a time of recreation away from home, and this is indeed what the Americans call going "on vacation".
"Holidays" (plural) is u

[nq:1]I believe that the singular "holiday" in US English usually means a public holiday, which in British English is called a "bank holiday", i.e. a day when most businesses are closed.[/nq]
Except the Supermarkets which open 1000 to 1600 hrs.

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[nq:2]I believe that the singular "holiday" in US English usually ... "bank holiday", i.e. a day when most businesses are closed.[/nq]
[nq:1]Except the Supermarkets which open 1000 to 1600 hrs.[/nq]
Oh dear, oh dear..
And.. I always told my students something like the following to explain the "bank holidays':
The banks close on certain weekends, so the shops close because thay can'

[nq:2]I believe that the singular "holiday" in US English usually ... "bank holiday", i.e. a day when most businesses are closed.[/nq]
[nq:1]Except the Supermarkets which open 1000 to 1600 hrs.[/nq]
There is still a law, a remnant of the old Sunday Trading Law which banned certain business altogether on Sundays, which says that large retail stores may only open for 6 hours on a Sunday. The

[nq:2]Except the Supermarkets which open 1000 to 1600 hrs.[/nq]
[nq:1]Oh dear, oh dear.. And.. I always told my students something like the following to explain the "bank holidays': The ... the day, so... the supermarkets close etc... A kind of chain reaction.. I was wrong.. thank you for your explanation![/nq]
I think your explanation was correct in the 1960s but they times, they are a-ch

[nq:2]Hello. Could anyone please explain to me the difference in ... "vacation" is the American equivalent of British "holiday(s)"? Thank you![/nq]
[nq:1]In British English, people go "on holiday" when referring to a time of recreation away from home, and this is ... to the Christmas season (possibly including Thankgiving?), where people will say "Happy Holidays" as a secular alternative to "H

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[nq:2]Except the Supermarkets which open 1000 to 1600 hrs.[/nq]
[nq:1]There is still a law, a remnant of the old Sunday Trading Law which banned certain business altogether on Sundays, which says that[/nq]
Errm, that's the new Sunday Trading Act (passed in 1994) which got rid of all the anomalies with the old piecemeal legislation which applied to shopping

[nq:1]Indeed; it's only the old-style retailers (and the banks, and anything public-service, such as libraries) that close on Bank Holidays. ... provide a catchment mechanism for all the wealth in the plastic of those whose employer has given a day off.[/nq]
That is a very modern view of holidays, which has only been applicable for 50, 100 or at the most 200 years. The word was original

[nq:2]After all, it makes a lot of sense to provide ... plastic of those whose employer has given a day off.[/nq]
[nq:1]That is a very modern view of holidays, which has only been applicable for 50, 100 or at the most 200 years.[/nq]
Come off it, wakes weeks- people saved 51 weeks of the year to blue the lot in a week at Blackpool for the mill girls, the Isle of Man for the office c