we are going on STAYCATION this summer

STAYCATION (stay+vacation)

It means spending your holiday time at your own home.

For example, we are going on STAYCATION this summer.

This word is present in the process of blending. This word takes the beginning of ‘stay’ and joining it to the end of ‘vacation’

Between 2007 and 2008, there was financial crisis in the US. Thus, this word comes from under consumption and increasing unemployment rate. I think many people stay at home in vacation to save money at that time. So, this word is made.

 I choose a new word, “staycation” because Korean has the same word “staycation”.

Staycation is called “Bangkok” in Korean. Actually, Bangkok is capital city in Thailand.

[bang] sounds mean ‘room’ in Korean and [kok] sounds like a mimetic word that is a state something is locked in. Even though Korean has the word, the origin is different.