Monday 27 July 2009
Going nowhere
I heard someone on Radio 4 trying out a new word this morning. "Staycation"; it sounds a bit like "vacation" and is supposed to mean not going abroad on your holidays. Quite topical in these recessionary times, but I'd be surprised if it catches on and I'll eat my sun hat if it gets into any dictionary you've ever heard of.
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It may not survive in its present form, but with a little judicious elision it could undergo convergent evolution and turn into station. Hence railway station, a holiday spent waiting for a train that's two weeks late; bus station, a holiday spent facilitating intracomputerial communicativity; police station, a holiday where the object is to be ASBO'd for being drunk and disorderly; fire station, a station with burning sensations; and so forth.
Word Verification: renti, plural of rento, a venal but non-murderous pest removal service.
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