Surely that the Americans do not have many holidays, so that the word "Holidays" is as much exclusive
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The U.S. actually has more Federal Holidays than the U.K.
Regarding total time off, it's behind for certain though. I get 8 weeks a year (41 days, including Federal holidays), but most get a lot less than that, down to no paid leave at all, though that only accounts for 2% of employers, and I'm not certain if they're including part time only positions in that figure.
You are the exception which confirms the rule
Good time to be the oddball!
To be honest, I'd give up some of that time if they'd put out a mandatory paid leave act. I think the overall work load would drop if people were able to rest more and come back refreshed.
I always find the evolution of dialect and language quite interesting.
http://the-toast.net/2014/03/19/a-linguist-explains-british-accents-of-yore/
It is actually the English who have moved more away from how they spoke in early colonial time. North Americans, are closer to how people spoke while the New World was being colonized. American English is rhotic, while modern day UK English has gone non-rhotic, away from its rhotic past. With the exception of Boston and the South, us colonials have stayed fairly faithful to how English used to be pronounced.
This is largely due to the fact that England was far more urban than North America which allowed for new trends in speech to develop. People living in rural areas tend to maintain the tradition of speaking that their ancestors had.
Of course, since then, North Americans have done a wonderful job of butchering, or stratifying, the dialects. From Minnesota with their long vowels, to the West Coast with "Valley" accents, and creole (French does odd things to English). Us Midwesterners stay true though...the voice of American news.
And it is still changing...look at Canada, there is a sea change happening in their vowels...and it is damn fascinating
The old vowels are 'oot' http://www.macleans.ca/society/life/in-the-midst-of-the-canadian-vowel-shift/
I may have been a bit harsh with editing your post
Okie eh, Ok is that like the Oak-tree? Are you telling us you are in good health or a tree, I am confused and think I need a holiday (See it is on topic).
Thanksgiving, Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/all that, New Years is the Holiday season (except for that one terrible neighbor that starts hanging lights after Halloween). Why did they use it? Probably because it's an easy way to be vague. Maybe because most of FD's sales come from the US and they are marketing to their biggest customers? But probably more just to be vague.
Lets just call it winter solstice...which is what inspired the dates for all these holidays anyway.
EDIT: Actually, to be fair to the Southern Hemisphere...December Solstice.
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In years to come, people will just say "Happy Horizons day"........
In France, an increasing number of bosses approves the flash siesta at work. To allow employees to be more concentrated
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Eventually even the Brits will catch up with the rest of the world in linguistics. Nah. Don't they still use barbers to perform surgeries there?
From my experience, they use butchers!
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Oh yeah... as a northern hemisphere dweller, I call it winterfest.
Educate yourself, son!I may have been a bit harsh with editing your post
Okie eh, Ok is that like the Oak-tree? Are you telling us you are in good health or a tree, I am confused and think I need a holiday (See it is on topic).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okie
And I'm a true Okie. I left Okla, moved to California (due to a recession in the state. No jobs.) but never quite made it back to Okla.
I have since misplaced my Oklahoma accent or what is commonly known as a 'Twang'. (Thank God!)
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August is the holiday season in my book!.
And given frontier HQ right now is maybe 3 miles away from me, it should be theirs too. with this in mind, looks like I will be getting horizons a good 3 months before you guys.
Commander, we have intercepted a communication coming from the Thargoid command.
"Yes Lieutenant", Sir they are planning to attack our main population centres around Lave and Eravati.
Ok, calm down, do we know when.
yes Sir "Holidays"
And can you be more specific.
No Sir, they obviously have the exact date encrypted in "Holidays"
Ok, get our best analysts on this, we need to crack it quick.
"Yes Lieutenant", Sir they are planning to attack our main population centres around Lave and Eravati.
Ok, calm down, do we know when.
yes Sir "Holidays"
And can you be more specific.
No Sir, they obviously have the exact date encrypted in "Holidays"
Ok, get our best analysts on this, we need to crack it quick.
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Obviously Thargoids would attack when we were at our most vulnerable, Black Friday. When Humanity devolves for one night to their base animal instincts, like The Purge but instead of killing each other, they fight over flat screens at Target.
[video=youtube_share;VKcAYMb5uk4]https://youtu.be/VKcAYMb5uk4[/video]
(sings) 'I am an Okie from Muskokee'I may have been a bit harsh with editing your post
Okie eh, Ok is that like the Oak-tree? Are you telling us you are in good health or a tree, I am confused and think I need a holiday (See it is on topic).
Horizons is coming out in time for Festivus, the holiday for the rest of us.
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Nahh, I lived in a little town called Talala. Moved there from Tulsa. My Aunt lived in Muskogee.
and it is ”I'm proud to be an Okie from Muskgoee".
Not much of a Country and Western fan myself.
Ah yes, that 'holiday' from that TV show... Yeah, yeah... :/
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