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New2grammar

#373149 Thu, 31 May 07 06:04 PM

One quick question. So do you still say 'He is on vacation' even though he does not come to work on a Wednesday only? Or there is a natural way of saying this.

My impression of 'He is on vacation' is at least a few days long which could mean he is going on a road trip or out of town.

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Lil' Ruby Rose

#373154 Thu, 31 May 07 06:25 PM

Clive wrote:

Anyway, the expression 'he/she's on leave' still sounds unlikely to me.

In the UK, our paid holiday allocation from work is called Annual Leave. It's typically expressed as a number of days - "I get 27 days Annual Leave, plus Bank Holidays". When we take time off work out of this allocation, we would usually say "I'm on leave next week" or "I've got Annual Leave next week" - so you'd hear it a lot in the British workplace (when we're not talking about how rubbish the weather is, we're moaning about how little time off we've got left!).

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khoff

#373193 Thu, 31 May 07 07:39 PM

One quick question. So do you still say 'He is on vacation' even though he does not come to work on a Wednesday only? Or there is a natural way of saying this.

No, you would say "He's not in today," or, if he's never in the office on Wednesday, you would say "He's not here/in/in the office on Wednesdays."

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