Date:  Wed, 13 Mar 1996 11:50:56 -0500

From:  Ronald Butters <amspeech[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ACPUB.DUKE.EDU>

Subject: Re: Thursday week



On Wed, 13 Mar 1996, Kathleen M. O'Neill wrote:



> Bethany spake thusly:

> >"Do you know the expression "Thursday, week" (or it could be any proper name

> >of any weekday, "week")? In case you don't know the phrase, it means "a

> >week from this coming Thursday."

>

> My British and Irish friends all use

> "Thursday, a week" with the meaning

> you describe.

>

When I first moved to Durham in 1967, an older friend from Charlston, SC,

used "Thursday week" = 'a week from Thursday' nd eplained that it was

aristocrsaqtic Charlestonian. He is quite an anglophile, however.