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Vacation is an Americanism.
hol·i·day
/ˈhäləˌdā/
noun - a day of festivity or recreation when no work is done.
"December 25 is an official public holiday"
verb: BRITISH
spend a holiday in a specified place.
"he is holidaying in Italy"
Well, if you go by their etymology or meanings words may have had in the past, people everywhere use a lot of words wrongly. Because language changes and evolves.
You might equally say 'going on vacation to' somewhere is wrong because you vacate from a place, not to one. Same Latin root. So WRONG.
Silly.
Well it came from the word 'vacated' as in rich people left for nicer weather and the word evolved into vacation (which sounds nicer).
Keep up the good fight Ticketsplease.
No one cares anymore but it's nice to know at least one person does.
We will miss you when you go on your final holiday.
The Brits are weird about a lot of things.
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Spare me from these people who think people who use different words in different countries are "wrong".
It's not wrong...you say vacation, we brits say holiday.
Plenty of other examples if you look into it.
You need to learn to accept such colloquial differences.
that's true, today i am on a holiday (new year's day). tomorrow i am on vacation.
shareIs that really a misuse though? That's what "holidays" generally ARE.
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