tonight

[Barbara Need]

Well, I remember leaving school in the 60s at the end of the day (3:00) and
hearing people say "goodnight". It always seemed bizarre to me.

Barbara Need
UChicago--Linguistics

>I have noticed over the past few years a tendency for baseball
>announcers to refer to afternoons as "tonight."  As in today's,
>"We'll see if (David) Cone is the Cone of old tonight," referring to
>a 1:00 p.m. EDT start on ESPN.  Is this just a case of announcer
>misspeak, or is this a semantic shift that's available only in this
>venue?
>
>Any opinions?
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>Greg
>
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