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Ruth Gregory Posts: 8072 Joined: 25th Jul 2007 Location: USA | quotePosted at 03:25 on 27th July 2008 Hi Paul: Hope this finds you well. Missed you the last few days. Why are they called bank holidays? |
Paul Hilton  Posts: 2605 Joined: 21st Nov 2004 Location: UK | quotePosted at 03:45 on 27th July 2008 Thanks Ruth; have been working but earwigging on the side, so to speak from my CB days. Bank Holidays were when the Bank Of England celebrated various holidays which stopped people trading on those days. The Bank Holiday Act of 1871 made some of them statutory and I think it was the Bank and Financial Dealings Act of 1971 they were last amended when New Years Day finally was made a Bank Holiday. It has no connection with what Bank Holiday means in the US. Hope you've been keeping well too, Ruth. |
| Ruth Gregory Posts: 8072 Joined: 25th Jul 2007 Location: USA | quotePosted at 04:01 on 27th July 2008 Well, the banks are closed on holidays here, Paul. But our holidays are not connected to Bank and Financial Dealings. Funny how the meaning of a word will change ever so slightly as language migrates. Somehow it seems that the words holiday and vacation are tied to being away from work. |
Wolf Posts: 3423 Joined: 9th Jul 2008 Location: Australia | quotePosted at 04:56 on 27th July 2008 Just been reading the posts from all the cuckoo's on here, very interesting.
sorry that should read :- about all the cuckoo's ....lol |
| L Posts: 5656 Joined: 10th Jun 2004 Location: UK | quotePosted at 08:41 on 27th July 2008 LOL @ Wolf |
| Paul Hilton Posts: 2605 Joined: 21st Nov 2004 Location: UK | quotePosted at 10:23 on 27th July 2008 LOL at Wolf too. Ruth---i think holiday comes from Holy Day as a period off work which America translasted into vacation---which possibly comes from vacating---like your place of work? Only a guess on vacations origins. |
| L Posts: 5656 Joined: 10th Jun 2004 Location: UK | quotePosted at 10:26 on 27th July 2008 Google says the meaning of 'vacation' is “freedom from occupation.”.....makes sense |
Denzil Tregallion Posts: 1764 Joined: 26th May 2008 Location: UK | quotePosted at 13:39 on 27th July 2008 freedom from occupation thats what the Iraqis need then |
| L Posts: 5656 Joined: 10th Jun 2004 Location: UK | quotePosted at 15:13 on 27th July 2008 as long as they don't all take their vacations here Denzil |
| Ruth Gregory Posts: 8072 Joined: 25th Jul 2007 Location: USA | quotePosted at 18:33 on 27th July 2008 On 27th July 2008 13:39, Denzil Tregallion wrote:
Well said, Denzil. |
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