All I can say is:

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As I always do, I DID read the full thread. I have often been accused of being a pedant myself but I think you're being too pedantic. I appreciate that legally it's not called a Bank Holiday, however, the government calls it a "bank holiday" and yesterday most banks were closed.

He is not being too pedantic - he is being correct.

If we agreed a contract and it said you would provide a full every Monday to Friday with the exception of (English) Bank holidays, I would expect that service to be delivered every day except for the five bank holiday days including Christmas Day, May Day, Good Friday and New Years Day. If you failed to deliver and it went to court, you would lose.

The common misunderstanding, including that by the person who composed the government website you linked to, is because the weekends associated with a Bank Holiday are called Bank Holiday weekends. Which is fair enough, as that is a true naming.

I have just reported the problem to the gov.uk website admin.

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We shall shall see what response I get.

I would expect that service to be delivered every day except for the five bank holiday days including Christmas Day, May Day, Good Friday and New Years Day.

I think you've contradicted yourself!

I'm confused.

To explain - I thought he was saying that Good Friday isn't a bank holiday and now he's saying it is. Perhaps I'm confused myself!

In reply to a post by rjh321:

I would expect that service to be delivered every day except for the five bank holiday days including Christmas Day, May Day, Good Friday and New Years Day.

I think you've contradicted yourself!

I thought that at first, but if you insert a comma, or better still a semi-colon after "days" it says what he meant .

(One of the many cases where punctuation matters and can radically change the meaning).

"I would expect that service to be delivered every day including Christmas Day, May Day, Good Friday and New Years Day, except for the five bank holidays" is even better, but isn't the way we speak.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

(One of the many cases where punctuation matters and can radically change the meaning).

+1 - Never ignore the power of punctuation.

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