It's a public holiday in Italy too, but we call it St. Stephen's Day (silly Catholic name, but still useful to keep digesting all that food from Christmas' lunch!)
A puzzled Yankee
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We don't?Pretty sure that's not true.
You have the equivalent holidays but they aren't called bank holidays in the US (so far as I'm aware - same as Canada) - they're called statutory holidays.
The UK has bank holidays (when the banks close) and public holidays when the local government offices close. Usually these are on the same day, but at Easter the bank holidays are Good Friday and Easter Monday, and the public holidays are Easter Monday and Tuesday. So depending on who you work for you get different days off.
Oh yeah. My girlfriend has been bugging me to buy her lingerie. The sales today made that very economical. Spent $50 on $150 worth of lacy sruff! I'll be doling this out for months.
Boxong Day is important in Australia because it is the day that the Sydney to Hobart Yacht starts and also the day the Boxing Day Test starts (cricket).
Ya know, sometimes I ask questions on the board that I could easily Google, just because I like to get the answer from a fun conversation rather than a dry internet search. A response like that is kind of like asking someone a question at a party and having them point you to their set of encyclopedias.
I do find it funny to see the word "Yankee" used to mean "American." I think of a "Yankee" as someone who lives north of the Mason Dixon line (and pretty much east of the Mississippi), and a "Yank" as an American to a Brit.
We don't?
You have the equivalent holidays but they aren't called bank holidays in the US (so far as I'm aware - same as Canada) - they're called statutory holidays.
The term I've usually heard is "federal holiday" as opposed to bank holiday. These are the days the public schools and government offices are closed. (States can add additional days, though, at least as far as the school schedules are concerned--some schools, for instance, will close for Jewish holidays, whereas others would not.)
I grew up in the LA area--they were called "bank holidays"--days that the banks might otherwise be open, as not an "official" holiday (New Years, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas), since all the rest (like President's Day) are not observed by all businesses and stuff.
Sorry for the long sentence.
Sorry for the long sentence.
I still live in the LA Area and they aren't called bank holidays.
Where are you getting your info on the Tuesday following Easter as a public holiday, Trampledamage? I've never known that. I've just checked with the Directgov website and it isn't there, either.
In some places, Easter Monday isn't a holiday either.
Where are you getting your info on the Tuesday following Easter as a public holiday, Trampledamage? I've never known that. I've just checked with the Directgov website and it isn't there, either.
In Tasmania Easter Tuesday is a public holiday but I don't think it is in the rest of Australia.
Schools in Tasmania are not just closed on Easter Monday and Tuesday but the Wednesday, Thusday and Friday as well. This is because, unlike the rest of Australia, Tasmania only have 3 school terms instead of four. Longer Easter holiday breaks up the long first term.
It is unlikely that Tasmania will ever go to a 4 term school year as the school year starts 2 weeks later than it does in the rest of Australia and during that two weeks Tasmanian famulies can get cheap airfares and accomodation because of the dwindling market.
Schools in Tasmania are not just closed on Easter Monday and Tuesday but the Wednesday, Thusday and Friday as well. This is because, unlike the rest of Australia, Tasmania only have 3 school terms instead of four. Longer Easter holiday breaks up the long first term.
It is unlikely that Tasmania will ever go to a 4 term school year as the school year starts 2 weeks later than it does in the rest of Australia and during that two weeks Tasmanian famulies can get cheap airfares and accomodation because of the dwindling market.
ShamelessMcBundy said:
You never saw the notice in the LA Times regarding some holiday "... banks will be closed ..." or "... banks will remain open ..."? The "closed" days are the bank holidays.
The phrase wasn't used very much (usually the longer "banks will be closed," but I remember seeing it--which is why I had to ask my Mom when I was little what it meant.
I can remember seeing it in the LA Times as well. Runs in the Arizona Republic and East Valley Tribune newspapers here as well. Not usually something that a lot of people notice though.
The term bank holiday usually refers to Federal and state holidays where other businesses are open for business, but the banks are closed. MLK day is a prime example. It also refers to a period during the first part of FDR's administration where the banks were closed by federal mandate in order to prevent bank runs.
Oh but who even reads newspapers anymore? 
Where are you getting your info on the Tuesday following Easter as a public holiday, Trampledamage? I've never known that. I've just checked with the Directgov website and it isn't there, either.
From the foggy depths of my memory! Possibly it's only Northern Ireland, and probably it's changed - but back when I worked for the Northern Ireland Association for Mental Health, and mr trampledamage worked for a computer company who had offices in a bank building, he would get Good Friday and I would get Easter Tuesday.
This was (gets out the abacus) fourteen years ago
The trains also ran holiday timetables for the Tuesday but not the Friday.
How come we don't get Pancake Tuesday off?
I just wanted to check because I didn't want to be cheated out of a day's holiday.Similar threads
