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Originally Posted by jusmee
Isn't the derivation of "holiday" = "Holy Day" ?
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Good point, although it now denotes any day we get to take a paid work day off to celebrate.
Kinda like the over-misuse of "decimate" to mean "almost wipe out", when it really only means "reduce by 10%". The distinction, of course, meaningless if you end up as part of the 10%. I expect some day to find Webster has thrown up is hands in defeat and the dictionary will be updated to reflect the common misuse.