Re: those irregular prepositions
| From: | Aidan Grey <taalenmaple@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 22, 2006, 14:31 |
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Generally, Americans say "two weeks" instead of "fortnight", the same number of
syllables. And for "Tuesday week", we say "a week from Tuesday". If I have the
meanings correct.
Aidan
Tristan Alexander McLeay <conlang@...> wrote: I do say "fortnight" and "Tuesday
week", though, which I think Americans find charmingly archaic if they
know what they mean. ("Fortnight" is *such* a useful term, I have no
idea how you get by without it. *So* many things happen on a
fortnightly basis. In particular, pay ;)
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