The increasing and annoying use of the word STAYCATION...

To me a staycation means not leaving the UK, holidaying in my home country. It's just a word and I don't have a problem with it. It shouldn't matter what it means to each of us. Surely we have far bigger issues to worry about

Fannycornforth. I did not say just talk about grave matters. I said that people should be allowed to call it what they want. What it is called really isn't important. Is all a personal choice as with many sayings/words

I agree Jane Judge . If you sleep in your own bed it is a staycation, if not, it is a holiday, regardless of where you go.

It honestly isn't the highest thing on my list of importance, it was just a general irritation whilst watching the weather section on itv news. I apologise it has caused others irritation or irritation that it hasn't

Growing0ldDisgracefully

We've had many holidays at Ourgate. The food and service was dreadful!

Theoddbird

Let people call it whatever they want to. It really isn't important.

If we only talked about matters of grave importance, there would be no Gransnet

Let people call it whatever they want to. It really isn't important.

We've had many holidays at Ourgate. The food and service was dreadful!

Crazy! It’s as if a holiday is not a holiday unless it’s abroad.
Maybe a holiday abroad could be an awaycation ?

I think it's a clever modern word, meaning one's not going abroad. For me, staying at home or holiday in UK is a staycation.

Lemontart, that is partly why it annoys me. The implication that it isn't a holiday if you don't go abroad. Another thing to be disappointed about when actually it has always been absolutely normal to holiday in your home country for people ALL AROUND THE WORLD

The trouble is that all the well off middle class people in the media can't seem to grasp that not everyone goes abroad for their holidays. It really annoys me too that a holiday in the UK is seen as somewhat second best. A staycation means staying at home and going on days out ( we had to do this one year and my autistic son loved it because he came home every evening and slept in his own bed), if you travel somewhere it is a holiday.

How I wish I had never read this!

Until I did, I had not heard either of a "staycation" or a "holistay". What hideous words.

To me "a holiday" is time off work, or if you are a schoolchild, time off school. In itself the word says nothing about how you spend the time, or where. It simply states that the period of time it covers is not a working day or days.

Vacation has always struck me as such a negative word, as it must surely mean "an empty time" .- -definitely not my idea of a holiday. I DO things when on holiday - whether I stay at home, travel in my own country, or go abroad. The point is that what I do is different to the things I do all the rest of the time.

M0nica I absolutely agree (for any pedants, I agree absolutely) ? There is so much to see and do right here in the UK, no language difficulties or money conversions and, if you wish to, you can come home!

Oldnproud

I can't be doing with this modern use of the word 'holiday' to refer to an extended period of leisure and recreation, rather than its 'proper' meaning of 'holy day".

Only joking.

Language changes. If it didn't we'd all still be grunting at each other, and even then, some would complain if someone got creative with an existing grunt or invented a new one.

??? I thought oh good grief when I first read your first paragraph. Then laughed with part relief when I read you were joking.

All

I totally agree where language is concerned. I prefer the word staycation to holidays. Yes I'm serious too. I always preferred the word vacation to holidays too

On a personal level a vacation is abroad to me. I don't do staycations here!

That's because I seen so much of the U.K as a child plus weather reasons too. Also its cheaper in general to go abroad than stay in the U.K, even self-catering.

Before people say I'm giving my money abroad; going abroad still gives money in the U.K in a different way, with hotels, traveling to the airport and so on

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I might need to hide now but I actually like the word Staycation as most people know it means you are going away somewhere in the UK.

A holiday for me is going abroad but because of Covid I've got to see some lovely parts of England that I'd not been to before especially the Cotswolds.

There’s no need to go abroad to have an enjoyable holiday (as long as you don’t require constant sunshine). Any country can look grim in the rain. Hot countries don’t have our lush green countryside.

I can't be doing with this modern use of the word 'holiday' to refer to an extended period of leisure and recreation, rather than its 'proper' meaning of 'holy day".

Only joking.

Language changes. If it didn't we'd all still be grunting at each other, and even then, some would complain if someone got creative with an existing grunt or invented a new one.

So glad I'm not alone in this, a staycation is definitely staying at home for a vacation not going away to stay anywhere else. According to the Telegraph: -

July 1944
“Staycation”, therefore, was a term used in an attempt to glamorise the somewhat grim predicament of having time off work without actually going anywhere. Its earliest recorded use, however, has been traced back to an article in the Cincinnati Enquirer from July 1944

Why can't people just say where they are going in the UK for their holiday, is it in some way less exciting or exotic than going overseas. With all the problems travelling overseas I think it would be rather good to stay put and holiday in the UK giving much needed money to the home economy.

holistay is so awful I think I'll start using it when I use my bus pass for days out!!!

In my young day, when asked where they were going on their holidays, people who were not going away would answer Haimeldayme.

Grantanow

English is an evolving language and staycation is just a new word. No problem with that surely.

I agree. And why be pleased that other are irritated. This is neither News or Politics. I wonder why it isn't under Chat?

"Stopathome" and "Windowsill Bay" for me this year