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

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

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.

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 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.

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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

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Growing0ldDisgracefully

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

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

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.

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

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

oh dear, I used this handy phrase only yesterday in M&S when asked by the assistant at the counter if I was having a holiday.
she was going to Sardinia, so I said it will be a staycation next month. Meaning staying in this country.

Growing0ldDisgracefully

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

this made me laugh

I don’t use the word myself, it doesn’t bother me as much as ‘holibobs’. Though to be honest holibobs doesn’t bother me that much, it just sounds silly.

Surely the whole point of words is that we all understand them to mean the same thing? If we all have our own interpretation of words then we won't be able to understand a blithering thing anyone says.

sharonarnott could tell me she's taking staycation (her meaning that she's off to Weston Super Mare for the week) and I decide to treat her to an ice cream as she's on staycation (my meaning that she's staying at home) then I'm going to end up on her doorstep, ringing a bell nobody will answer with ice cream melting all over my tank top.

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