Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 14:53:49 EST

From: Betty Phillips EJPHILL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ROOT.INDSTATE.EDU

Subject: Re: Thursday next, etc.



My intuitions accord with Natalie's. Thursday week is always a week

from next Thursday. (I'm from south Georgia.)



Betty Phillips

ejphill[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]root.indstate.edu





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From: Natalie Maynor maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]RA.MSSTATE.EDU

Subject: Re: Thursday next, etc.

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I would be interested to know whether such retrospective

constructions as "Thursday last" or "Thursday week" (meaning "a week ago

Thursday") coexist in the speech of those Southern American speakers who

have "Thursday week" in its prospective sense.



It would never enter my mind to interpret "Thursday week" as anything

other than a week from next Thursday. That's the only meaning I've ever

intended when using it.

--Natalie (maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ra.msstate.edu)