Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 08:38:04 -0800

From: Allen Maberry maberry[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]U.WASHINGTON.EDU

Subject: Re: Boundaries of 'next' and 'last'



Growing up I was used to hearing "Xday next" and "Xday last" but now

even that usage seems to be dying out.

Allen

maberry[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]u.washington.edu



On Thu, 14 Mar 1996, David Robertson wrote:



That's thought - provoking. I now realize that for as long as I can

remember, I've been very aware of the confusion possible in the use of

each of these words. And possibly in my case it's also due to dialect

confusion, i.e. between my mother's NW Montana and my father's E

Washington speech.



Dave