Re: USAGE: Hither, thither and yon (was Re: Weekly Vocab 26)
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, October 19, 2003, 21:55 |
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Paul Bennett/A.Walker/M.Reed have discussed--
> What about the phrase "Hither, thither and yon", which I've
> encountered in quasi-archiac contexts (i.e. from my Grandparents)
> meaning "All over the place"? Is this something unique to both sets
> of my grandparents (from different regional and social lects), or is
> it just British, or is it archaic, or what is the exact distribution?
>
Yes, that's familiar to me too, in a grandparently context; the 3 who were
US-born were pure upper midwest in speech.
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