Oct 7, 2014 · 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.

Mar 21, 2017 · 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.

Jan 28, 2012 · 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.

Oct 13, 2015 · The use of the phrase 'administrative division of a country' in this question is quite problematic. The United States never got divided into the states that constitute it; it's rather that the states chose to get united.

Aug 28, 2014 · If, in a contract fr example, the text reads: "X has to finish the work by MM-DD-YYYY", does the "by" include the date or exclude it? In other words, will the work delivered on the specified date

Dec 27, 2012 · Still, if you know that they celebrate Christmas or if they have mentioned Christmas previously as the reason they will be un-contactable for a while, then go with Christmas. If you know they celebrate another holiday (solstice and Chanukkah were both celebrated recently) then do mention the holiday they celebrated.

Jul 29, 2011 · From WordWeb: Annual: Occurring or payable every year What is the corresponding single word for occurring every two year, three year, four year etc.

Jan 17, 2013 · The Associated Press Stylebook has this entry for federal:. Use a capital letter for the architectural style and for corporate or governmental bodies that use the word as part of their formal names: Federal Express, the Federal Trade Commission.

Nov 18, 2014 · You can call them abecedarian words.. Abecedarian is an adjective meaning "being arranged alphabetically". It comes from the Latin abecedarius, which means "alphabetical," based on the names of the first letters of the Latin alphabet.

How does one correctly apply “in which”, “of which”, “at which”, “to which”, etc.? I'm confused with which one to apply when constructing sentences around these.