An example, if any were needed, of how fast language changes, and with it our attitudes. When I first heard the word “staycation”, meaning spending one’s holiday in and around one’s own home, I probably grimaced more than a little. But now I find myself wanting to protect the clunky, ugly neologism from a new meaning being applied by tabloid sub-editors, which is simply a holiday in one’s own country. Although I suppose I’m old enough to remember when the word for this was simply “holiday”.
Yeah, Staycation is the future for the majority of British holidaymakers since travel is being severly discouraged. I wouldn't be surprised if the south coast becomes the new building boom for Britain's corrupt building developers; the new Costa del Plenty.
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