Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 14:21:44 -0700

From: bruce dwight bolinging bboling[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UNM.EDU

Subject: Re: Thursday next, etc.



Here are a couple of quite acceptable sentences in Mid-Ulster/Ulster

Scots that might be of interest to you in the light of your reply to my

query:



(1) he come back Thursday week "he came back a week ago Thursday"



(2) he come back last Thursday week "he came back a week ago last

Thursday"



These pattern with the sentence: I recived your letter this day

munth "I received your letter a month ago today." With this compare:

I'm away to Amerikay this day month "I'm off to America a month from today."



In asking my question I was simply concerned to know whether

Southern American English might have lost the retrospective meaning of

such phrases in favor of the prospective



Bruce D. Boling

University of New Mexico

bboling[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]unm.edu