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Lesley:
An interesting phone in on BBC Radio 2 (well I enjoy Jeremey Vine anyway)  It would seem Staycation means you stay at home in your own home and garden area.  As opposed to the new Americanism via Media outlets which says this means gander around your own country.  It would seem Staycation means stay home and not meaning have a holiday in the UK whilst 50 years ago we all did go on holiday in the UK we never had a staycation, I really can't remember my father saying this Summer we are haiving a staycation he said OK for our Summer Holiday we are going to.......we are going on holiday, be it Devon, Cornwall, the Lake District up to Scotland we said we were going on holiday... Just interested in the power of Social Media and how they have changed our own British language into more Americaisms

Jimbo:
Most people understand it to mean holidaying the UK.

Karen:
To us it means holidaying somewhere in this country. As a child, we used to have caravan holidays in  Norfolk,  I loved it. We went to Butlins at Skegness, a couple of times. I didn't go abroad until I was 26. We didn't call them staycations then, they were holidays. :)

Lesley:
But my dad never said we were having a Staycation we just went on holiday in the UK hence my post when did this tag become the norm? When you Google it, it suggests you stay home and have days out, however isn't Google American?  I just never remember my daddy saying well this Summer we are having a staycation in Devon, Cornwall, Lake District etc we just went on holiday......

Karen:
I think it came about when people started to holiday  abroad more for their holidays and it was a staycation when they holidayed in their own countries. As I said, we called them holidays, not staycations..

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