How to express a day off work. Bank Holidays. Transcription: “Hi there, guys. DebOnAir here. How you all doing today?

Yesterday was a holiday. And did you take today off work?

Today is a Friday between a Thursday holiday and a Saturday Sunday weekend. In Austria, you call that a window day. We don't really have this term in English, but we can ask questions like this.

Have you taken an extra day off? Or very, very rare, you could say, have you taken a bridge day? Are you making a long weekend out of the Thursday holiday?

These are all ways we can express what in Austria you call a window day. Interestingly, in England, we don't really have this day, which is why we don't really have a great expression for it. We often say, I took an extra day off work.

This is because when we have a holiday, an official public holiday, we call it a bank holiday, and we always put them on the Monday. So May Day last week on Wednesday was celebrated on Monday the 6th of May in Britain. I don't know, what do you think?

Is it better always to have three day weekends, or to have the chance to have a really long weekend with four days? But you have to take a day's holiday.

Whichever you are doing this weekend, long or not, I hope it's going to be a fantastic one. Enjoy yourselves everybody, and see you again on Monday.”

From DebOnAir - Learn English with Deb!: 23. It’s Friday and an Austrian Special-“Window?” Day, 10. May 2024

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From DebOnAir - Learn English with Deb!: 23. It’s Friday and an Austrian Special-“Window?” Day, 10. May 2024

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