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| 271.1 | | BEING::POSTPISCHIL | Always mount a scratch monkey. | Mon Nov 10 1986 12:36 | 15 |
| Re .0:
> "I have a dentist appointment Monday week."
I cannot recall ever hearing or seeing that usage.
As far as determining when the actual date is, the tense tells you
whether it is the tenth or the seventeenth. I recall a system service
on Unix to parse dates, so that you could, for example, go into the
news program and ask for the new articles since Tuesday, yesterday, or
last Sunday. I do not have access to Unix any longer. Perhaps
somebody with access now can tell us more about this.
-- edp
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| 271.2 | A Canado-American replies | PSTJTT::TABER | Remember what the doormouse said | Mon Nov 10 1986 12:55 | 7 |
| "Monday week" is a usage from Brittan, still used in Canada. It means a
week from next Monday, i.e. one week after Monday next occurs. I don't
think I've heard it much in the US. The only exception in our family
was when it was said on a Monday, then it would mean "a week from
today," since monday was occuring this very moment.
>>>==>PStJTT
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| 271.3 | Where it's found in U.S. | DRAGON::MCVAY | Pete McVay, VRO (Telecomm) | Mon Nov 10 1986 13:32 | 4 |
| "Monday week" is also current--and very much used--in the Tidewater
Virginia area. This is the same place that also uses "howse" for
"house". Many of the colloquialisms are holdovers from colonial
days. The meaning is the same as given in the previous reply.
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| 271.4 | It's in my dictionary -- checked yours? | SUPER::MATTHEWS | Don't panic | Mon Nov 10 1986 16:30 | 8 |
| This usage of "week" appears in the American Heritage Dictionary,
with no indication that it is regional.
To compound the confusion, "week" can be used to mean one week ago
from a specified day; their example is "It was Friday week that
we last met."
Val
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| 271.5 | | KBOV07::TINIUS | Kaufbeuren, Germany | Wed Nov 12 1986 07:50 | 3 |
| In German the expression is "Montag in acht Tagen", Monday in *eight* days.
Stephen
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| 271.6 | It's Monday & I'm weak | AMUSED::UPPER | I canna ge' enuf power-r, sur-r-r! | Mon Nov 24 1986 13:50 | 11 |
| The only way I've ever heard it -- out in the puckerbrush -- was to mean
'Two Mondays ago' or 'A week before the previous Monday', meaning, I
suppose that the previous Monday marked a week since the event in question.
EG: 'The bahn fell daown Monday week.' (Today is some day after Monday,
and the barn collapse occurred on the Monday of the previous week.)
Whew!
BU
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| 271.7 | Britain!!! | IOSG::DEMORGAN | | Tue May 19 1987 06:54 | 5 |
| It is indeed used in Britain (not Brittan!). However its meaning
(as well as terms such as "a week on monday") varies in different
parts of the country. I don't advise its use.
Richard De Morgan.
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