Holidays or holiday? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange At one time the only 'holiday' that ordinary people had were days such as Christmas, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Whit Monday etc These were Holy Days - holidays When workers won the right to annual leave entitlement, they began talking about their 'holidays' since there was more than one day of holiday involved
At a hotel or in a hotel - English Language Usage Stack Exchange In a comment responding to the original post, Eduardo advises the poster to add a verb in front of the phrases "at a hotel" and "in a hotel" to obtain a more precise idea of which phrase is more common
Is it “in” or “on the holidays”? - English Language Usage . . . Holiday breaks usually consist of more than one day, so when you refer to Christmas you are thinking about Christmas eve, Christmas day and Boxing day (also called ‘St Stephen's Day’) The Easter holiday is usually made up of two days; Easter Sunday and Easter Monday N B Good Friday is not a public holiday in Italy but it is in the UK
Is there a difference between holiday and vacation? Briefly, a "vacation" is one that you plan A "holiday" is one that is planned by government, tradition etc e g School holiday, public holiday For example, you take a "vacation" when you are free, i e during a holiday (or when you are out of work) You have a holiday when there is already one
etymology - Is holiday derived from holy day? - English Language . . . Holiday is a compound stemming from the words holy and day The word 'holiday' first surfaced in the 1500's replacing the earlier word 'haliday' which was recorded before 1200 in the Old English book Ancrene Riwle Earlier , about 950, the word was 'haligdaeg' and appeared in the Old English Lindisfarne Gospels