>Well, Peter Pedantic, I would have said "holiday" but, to Americans, that seems to mean public time off, such as Xmas and Thanksgiving. Vacs is used mainly by British university students to mean the periods between their terms (semesters).

No, it's not pedantic, it's just that English language doesn't have enough words, Q.E.D., though it wasn't my intent :).

Homo homini homonym.