Re: Romance demonstratives (WAS: Just a Little Taste of Judean(Part 2))

"Raymond A. Brown" wrote:
> Indeed it does.  In Old French 'today' was simply 'hui' but was felt to be
> a bit short, so to speak, so the French took to saying: au jour d'hui = at
> the day of today  :)
Reminds me of the Spanish _hoy di'a_, which, IIRC, means something like
"nowadays", but I can imagine it shifting in meaning to "today" sometime
in the future becoming "hoydi'a".

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