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Default Re: 'on holiday' or 'for holiday'?

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Originally Posted by polar6992 View Post
In my experience, the British and Australians go "on holiday". It would be very unusual for an American English speaker to use the phrase. They go "on vacation." If a specific place is named [e.g. The Grand Canyon"} the most common phrase is "for vacation" after the place name. "I went to the Grand Canyon for vacation."
holiday=BrE
vacation=AmE

Since the original post was about 'holiday' we stuck to that.
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