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I have just come back from a week on 'holiday' and have been corrected by a couple of colleagues for saying 'holiday' rather than 'vacation'. They have been a bit stumped when I have pointed out that we work for a company called 'P****** Holidays', not 'P****** Vacations'.
The other one that gets me is that you buy ground coriander, but fresh cilantro![Huh?](https://britishexpats.com/forum/images/smilies/huh.gif)
Others stupid words please.
The other one that gets me is that you buy ground coriander, but fresh cilantro
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Others stupid words please.
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Coriander is the seed.
Anyway, I know certain word variations are daft... but when in Rome, you'd speak Italian. We're in America so its best to speak "American" at times.
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Anyway, I know certain word variations are daft... but when in Rome, you'd speak Italian. We're in America so its best to speak "American" at times.
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In American English, it's clear....Holidays are only a handful of specific dates on the calendar, while Vacations are any day throughout the year that you choose to not work.
How do you make that distinction in the UK if the only word you use is Holiday?
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I'm American, so I always wondered about this difference between Holday and Vacation. In the UK, if Holday = Vacation, how do you specify that it's a real Holiday day (like Christmas Day), as opposed to a Vacation (just a normal day that you take off for fun)?
In American English, it's clear....Holidays are only a handful of specific dates on the calendar, while Vacations are any day throughout the year that you choose to not work.
How do you make that distinction in the UK if the only word you use is Holiday?
Rene
In American English, it's clear....Holidays are only a handful of specific dates on the calendar, while Vacations are any day throughout the year that you choose to not work.
How do you make that distinction in the UK if the only word you use is Holiday?
Rene
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I'm American, so I always wondered about this difference between Holday and Vacation. In the UK, if Holday = Vacation, how do you specify that it's a real Holiday day (like Christmas Day), as opposed to a Vacation (just a normal day that you take off for fun)?
In American English, it's clear....Holidays are only a handful of specific dates on the calendar, while Vacations are any day throughout the year that you choose to not work.
How do you make that distinction in the UK if the only word you use is Holiday?
Rene
In American English, it's clear....Holidays are only a handful of specific dates on the calendar, while Vacations are any day throughout the year that you choose to not work.
How do you make that distinction in the UK if the only word you use is Holiday?
Rene
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Yes, I get confused when people say 'which is your favourite holiday'? etc. I can't quite get my head around Halloween' being a holiday, nobody I know gets Halloween off of work. Then Christmas is generally known as "the Holidays' why?
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Is it a new thing? The company I work for is 50 years old and in its name its 'Holidays' we don't arrange Christmas, we arrange trips to Hawaii.
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the holidays are usually called Bank holidays in the UK.
personal holidays are just holiday or annual leave.
personal holidays are just holiday or annual leave.
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