Date:  Thu, 14 Mar 1996 09:35:10 EST

From:  Larry Horn <LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU>

Subject: Thursday week



The suspicion remains that it's limited to the British Isles (including the

Irish Republic, of course) and Southern U.S. I don't think we've had any

outliers who claim intimacy with "Xday week"; growing up in New York and

living in California, Wisconsin, and New England, I've only encountered it in

Britannic contexts myself and I don't think we've had other northern/midland

speakers attest it, have we? Curious.

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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