[lit-ideas] Re: "The Day After Yesterday"
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 11:24:48 EST
In a message dated 1/31/2005 5:06:55 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
phil.enns@xxxxxxxxxxx writes about 'yesterday':
I know how
to use it in a variety of contexts but which one is the 'literal' one?
I'm no longer sure I know how to use it in a variety of contexts, after
reading this from the OED entry for 'yesterday':
"The twofold meaning exhibited in the above forms and in Old High German
""<NOBR>egestday before yesterday,' but also 'day after tomorrow,' indicates
that the _original_ ['literal'] application of the word was to a day preceding
or following the present."
"The following apparent example of the English word with the meaning â??
tomorrowâ?? is isolated, but still valid:
1533 MORE Apologia, p. 201,
I geue them all playn peremptory warnynge
now, that they dreue yt of no lenger. For yf
they tarye tyll yesterday..I purpose to
purchace suche a proteccyon for them [etc.].
Cheers,
JL
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