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

>