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- 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
- prepositions - Next Monday or on next Monday? - English Language . . .
Both "next Monday" and "on next Monday" can be used, but they have slightly different connotations Next Monday: This phrase is commonly used and means the Monday that follows the current week
- What is hoolihan in Old Paint song? - English Language Usage . . .
Lyric is: I ride an old paint, I lead an old dan I'm goin' to Montana to throw the hoolihan They feed in the coulees, they water in the draw Their tails are all matted, their
- How to correctly apply in which, of which, at which, to which . . .
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
- 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
- word choice - On the last week or In the last week? - English . . .
I'm planning a trip My plane lands on the 29th of August Should I say: I'll arrive on the last week of August or I'll arrive in the last week of August
- “Do you have” vs “Have you got” - English Language Usage . . .
I found where you got the statistics: the Separated by a Common Language blog And one reason for the discrepancy with Google Ngrams is that "do you have" is rapidly gaining over "have you got" both in the US and the UK, and the British National Corpus was collected a decade or so earlier than the Corpus of Contemporary American English, and this time difference substantially increases the
- Difference between at and in when specifying location
I am used to saying "I am in India " But somewhere I saw it said "I am at Puri (Oriisa)" I would like to know the differences between "in" and "at" in the above two sentences
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