Date:  Thu, 14 Mar 1996 09:26:56 +0000

From:  "E. W. Gilman" <egilman[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]M-W.COM>

Subject: Thursday week



This has been entered without a label in Merriam-Webster dictionaries

since 1934. It can refer to either the following Thursday or to the

preceding Thursday:



...unless he got moving...he would be drawing the dole by the

following Monday week--Edna O'Brien



Last Friday week I stood in a receiving line with your brother and

sister-in-law for a good hour--Flannery O'Connor



The OED has 19th century citations from Dickens's time on.



E.W.Gilman