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Holiday/holidays
Message de fleuranh posté le 31-08-2005 à 17:56:35 (S | E | F | I)
Hi everyone,
I hope that you are still on holiday....
Referring to holidays I wonder what are the rules for using the words "holiday" and "holidays". Here are a few exemples "I'm going on holiday in a week" , "We went to France for our holidays last year", "holiday with pay", "paid holidays". All this is quite confusing.
Message de fleuranh posté le 31-08-2005 à 17:56:35 (S | E | F | I)
Hi everyone,
I hope that you are still on holiday....
Referring to holidays I wonder what are the rules for using the words "holiday" and "holidays". Here are a few exemples "I'm going on holiday in a week" , "We went to France for our holidays last year", "holiday with pay", "paid holidays". All this is quite confusing.
Réponse: Holiday/holidays de kate, postée le 01-09-2005 à 22:10:04 (S | E)
Had a think about this:
I would say "The summer holidays" (when we're away from school)
but "My summer holiday" (to talk about the fortnight I spent in France).
I'm not sure if there's a definite rule.
But in American English "holiday" means Christmas, or New Year or some festival. They say "vacation" when talking about going away somewhere.
Réponse: Holiday/holidays de traviskidd, postée le 06-09-2005 à 18:25:02 (S | E)
holiday = jour férié (litt. "saint jour")
holidays = les jours autour d'un jour férié, où on ne travaille pas
vacation = vacances
Happy Holidays! (Christmas and New Year's)
Réponse: Holiday/holidays de ourimba, postée le 30-09-2005 à 18:34:48 (S | E)
This is one of the things I prefer with American English. In Australia we don't use the term vacation. If it's a jour férié we call that a public hoilday and a vacation is a holiday. It's much less confusing with American English and French.
A mon avis, bien entendu
Réponse: Holiday/holidays de asmarino, postée le 09-10-2005 à 13:48:33 (S | E)
Hello everyone,
I think that holiday is a composed word , in fact it is composed of a dimunitif of HOLLY + Day = HOLIDAY, in my opinion and I am only a beginner in the language of Shakesper, this terminology is more fitting for the religious occasion. For all other VACATION seems to suit.
Réponse: Holiday/holidays de bkonly101, postée le 09-10-2005 à 17:29:08 (S | E)
Hi everyone
In my opinon Holidays are important for persons like me because I study.
And sometimes I want to take rest
holidays 4ever
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