It's not New Years!

New Years is another ghastly imported Americanism

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.

It is HOGMANY followed by New Year's Day.

"What are you doing for Hogmanay?"?

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

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.

Never heard it described as New Years

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!?

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

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.

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?"

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 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!!