Hi, everybody. Welcome back to Ask Alicia, the weekly series where you ask me questions and I answer them. Maybe. Let's get to your first question this week. First question this week comes from Evan. Hi, Evan. Evan says, what does observe mean in Observe the Holiday? I thought this word meant look. Thanks. Yeah, interesting question.

To observe a holiday.

This use of observe means recognize.

So when companies, usually it's companies, say this on like their website or you see this on like an official announcement somewhere, it's usually because they are going to take a day off, or maybe they are

going to have different business hours. So the company might write something on their website,

like the company is going to observe the Christmas holiday this year and we will not be open

on December 25th. There's something like that. You might see this kind of announcement on a company website.

So this observe means we are going to recognize, like recognize and take action because of the holiday.

So when we observe a holiday, it's like saying we notice that this holiday is important or we recognize this holiday is important.

So something is going to be a little bit different because of that holiday. So yes,

observe usually means to look at something or to watch something, like especially in a scientific

way. But when we use it with holiday as in observed the holiday, it means to recognize.

So, interesting question.

Thanks a bunch for sending it along.

Okay.

Let's move on to your second question.

Second question comes from Chris.

Hi, Chris.

Chris says, what's the difference between tinker and fiddle, as in tinker with something or fiddle with something. Oh,

interesting question. Okay. So let's talk about these two verbs, two tinker and two fiddle. So both

of these mean kind of like to make small changes to something, but the difference is in the intention or

in the purpose. When we tinker with something,

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