US bank holiday on 18th Feb....

[Loosehead]

Is it President's day or is it Presidents' day?

[Gromit]

Neither, it is Presidents Day.

Originally for Washington's birthday, it now commemorates all presidents.

[Loosehead]

Should that not be Presidents' day then?

[sir.prize]

Presidents Day (or Presidents' Day), is the common name for the federal holiday officially designated as Washington's Birthday, and both variants are among the official names of a number of coinciding state holidays.

[helpmetoo]

oh no!!!!!
not another ab futile argument about language usage, terminology and nuance!!!

give us a brake!!!! (error intended)

[jno]

Some people care about getting things right. (Wikipedia says Presidents and Presidents' are both correct.)

Some don't.

Some just go on to others' threads to whinge.

[sir.prize]

Helpmetoo. It is always nice to be right and understand fully, especially when intelligent questions can be answered factually and indeed verified. It is recognised as learning. Perhaps that is the whole intention of this website - Answerbank. Too many people go through life believing there is the 'right' the 'wrong' and the 'near enough'. As above, it is nice to be right.

[Loosehead]

Thanks all, apostrophie pedantry aside I was mainly asking whether the bank holiday was for the current president or all of them, that has been answered adequately.

[Gromit]

Let us not forget that in 1996 under a Tory government and when the Commons was full of tories, MPs voted themselves a 26%t pay rise!

[Gromit]

Sorry Loosehead, I posted that in the wrong thread. ^ ^ ^ ^

[Loosehead]

well I was beginning to wonder!

[sp1814]

Loosehead

Actually, I think the correct use of grammar is incredibly important.

I work with a number of people who have no idea about their, there and they're, and your and you're.

I blame new teaching methods brought in during the 80s which emphasised 'expression' rather than grammatical accuracy.

I bet I've spelled something wrong in this post.

[jno]

I regret to say, sp1814, that you haven't.

[Maggoty]

No you see - I would have put spelt, not spelled.

Just goes to show....

[Clanad]

A fine opportunity for segue into further pedantry; Washington and Lincoln's birthdays are both in February, historically causing two National Holidays within just weeks f each other. To solve the problem, Presidents (or Presidents' (a useless floating apostrophe, somewhat like a noxious weed peeking through the foliage; certainly neoteric, in my opinion.) became the singular holiday to denote both. Somewhat later, in a bow to p.c. ness, the holiday was claimed to be in reverence to all Presidents, some of which I wouldn't walk across the street to greet.
In some States (notably California) the date is still recognized as Washinton's Birthday...

[helpmetoo]

sir.p

i dont necessarily disagree with you, but what is more than a little annoying is the 'language jousting' between some abers that takes over a questions topic

please make your point you lot...just the once and move on!

[Gromit]

sir.prize

"As above, it is nice to be right. "

Should that be "As above, it is nice that I can copy and paste the right answer word for word from wikipedia and pretend they are my own."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidents_Day_%2 8United_States%29

[sir.prize]

Gromit. Initially I did not consider your retort worthy of response. But on reflection I will endeavour to correct your misinterpretation of my second post. At the end I did indeed type As above, it is nice to be right. That referred to the first line of my SECOND post. Secondly my first post was indeed copied and pasted word for word directly from Wikipedia. I did not infer or pretend that the words were my own. One of the reasons people ask questions is that they may be unable to verify their query themselves. How else is one expected to find answers without searching and possibly taking quotes from other websites? Surely that is the main purpose of the World Wide Web. I do believe many Answerbank members rely very much on information each other along with www pages to answer their queries. Finally, it will be noticed that your response did not address the initial question and was, may I suggest, pointless. It IS nice to be right - but we all cannot be, can we?