Re: those irregular prepositions

On 6/22/06, Yahya Abdal-Aziz <yahya@...> wrote:
My only other bullet-point convention
> for plain text involves using lowercase "o", thus:
>  o list-item-1
>  o list-item-2
>  o list-item-3
>  ...
>
> I wasn't sure which would be more readable for
> most listmembers.
>
Try this:
- (list item)

or this:
+ (list item)

or this:
# (list item)

In any case "at the weekend" sounds very quaint! I've never heard it
before, personally.

On 6/21/06, Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> wrote:
> One of the more peculiar usages, AFAIK ONLY in stock-market reports (both
> press and radio/TV) and brokers' jargon, is "on the day"--
>
> "IBM advanced 2 points on the day"
> "Volume was 55 million shares on the day" etc. etc.
"On the day" could also mean "over the course of the day", and
specifically could be interpreted as an abbreviation of "on (i.e.
from) the closing price of the previous day". Of course, in the sense
of "today" it's not hard to see the analogical derivation when we
remember that we say "on the 22nd".

Cheers,
Eugene