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Ice2007 Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Leave or holidays ?

Please send the information to xxx during my annual leave or hoildays
  

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Americans would typically say Please send the information to *** while I'm on vacation. I've always understood "leave" to be either medically related or educatonally related and is different from holidays or vacation time. People are sometimes given a leave of absence for such things.

— Becky In Poland

  • Americans would typically say Please send the information to *** while I'm on vacation.
  • I've always understood "leave" to be either medically related or educatonally related and is different from holidays or vacation time.
  • People are sometimes given a leave of absence for such things.
  • I'm not sure that they are always paid.
  • I understand that Brits typically use "holidays" more than Americans.
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Americans would typically say

Please send the information to *** while I'm on vacation.

I've always understood "leave" to be either medically related or educatonally related and is different from holidays or vacation time. People are sometimes given a leave of absence for such things. I'm not sure that they are always paid.

I understand that Brits typically use
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Please send the information to *** while I am away on leave.
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