It's not New Years!

I will be staying in to, not up to celebrating as still getting over a virus! it wont be quiet here as no doubt the fireworks will be going off all night again!!

I have always said 'New Year's' - the abbreviation of 'New Year's Eve'
I'm normally quite pedantic, haven't ever really thought about this expression before!

I had a colleague in Yorkshire who always called it Old Year's night.

It doesn't have the same ring about it to me "What are you doing for Old Year's?"

Not heard that phrase before. DD returns to work on New Year's Eve or 31st December, followed by New Year's Day.

We would ask 'What are you doing for the New Year?' In fact a friend asked me just that a few days ago.

Some of H's family (Londoners) say Old Years Night I laughed when I first heard that. Didn't make me popular at the time

I agree, it's New Year or New Year's Eve NOT 'New Years' which is probably another americanism that we will get stuck with!?

Never heard it described as New Years

I hear "what are yous doing for New Years?" a lot. Drives me mad. There seems to be more instances of people not finishing sentences and the media doesn't help. "strictly" and "come with" seem popular at the minute.

Quite. I agree entirely - and that is without the matter of the missing apostrophe!

"What are you doing for Hogmanay?"?

It is HOGMANY followed by New Year's Day.

No, Granny23, check it out and you will find it is as I spelled it. It is the celebration of the passing of the old year into the new and thus commences on 31st December and leads to the custom of first footing after midnight.

New Years is another ghastly imported Americanism

This New Years Eve (the eve of a new year) the same as every other, I will be staying in, as my Pooch is terrified of fireworks!

What ever it is I shall be partying- have fun everyone!

And that's another thing! I'm sure that people didn't used to have fireworks at New Year celebrations when I was young.

Crossed posts Rob Yours had not appeared when I hit post, so I was not criticising your spelling - which is correct, unlike mine just trying to emphasise the proper name for the day.

fireworks are a new addition to New Year celebrations,in the "olden days" well the fifties and sixties when I was young we still stuck with tradition and it was mainly house parties and first footing.A first foot should always come with the essentials of life...salt (for wealth) coal(for heat) whisky ( self explanatory) and cake or shortbread ( for food) I have a little bag that has my salt and coal in it ,its the same salt and coal my late dad carried over our doorstep the first New Year we were married in 1975,It still goes first footing but it always comes home .A very Happy,Healthy and Prosperous 2017 to you all

What is being celebrated is the New Year, and that starts at midnight. New Years is short for New Year's Eve - the evening of the last day before the New Year. The parties get started in the evening, but the whole point is to welcome in the beginning of 2017, not to make a big thing of the previous day.

As well as "Hogmanay I remember 31 December being referred to as "Auld Year's Nicht " (old year's night) and also in my childhood, people used to send New Year's Day cards -useful if you had missed someone out at Christmas, but a bit of a giveaway.

Oh blast! I just lost a post.

In terms of numbers of people who say Years rather than Year in the phrase Happy New Year(s), we Brits are on the losing side.

I do think it's unreasonable, since you asked, to complain about such transAtlantic differences coming over here and being adopted.

There's another difference too: I think Americans tend to stress the word New whereas Brits tend to stress the word Year. Oh the shock and horror! Not. ??

And what's more, they pronounce it 'Noo'....

Have never heard anyone say New Years, it's always ' are you doing anything at/for New Year?'

Never heard New Years without the apostrophe and Eve. Oh but I have heard yous as the plural of you in the NE and youse in scouse land. How I hate it.