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Mar. 15th, 2004 07:59 amYou know you get those little niggles? Turns of phrase, or cliches, or character traits that make you want to spork someone?
Summer hols.
I *have* never, and *will* never call them the summer hols. And I'm as British as they come.
Summer hols is Enid Blyton and misogyny and ginger beer and no one laughing at you when you call characters Dick and Fanny. Summer hols is lashings of boiled eggs and camping out making beds out of *heather* (which never sounded comfortable) and jolly good and chaps and short trousers.
Summer holidays. Or even just summer, really. Everyone knows the holidays are there. Just please. *Please*. No hols.
Summer hols.
I *have* never, and *will* never call them the summer hols. And I'm as British as they come.
Summer hols is Enid Blyton and misogyny and ginger beer and no one laughing at you when you call characters Dick and Fanny. Summer hols is lashings of boiled eggs and camping out making beds out of *heather* (which never sounded comfortable) and jolly good and chaps and short trousers.
Summer holidays. Or even just summer, really. Everyone knows the holidays are there. Just please. *Please*. No hols.
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