LL-L "Language contacts" 2006.03.11 (04) [E]

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   L O W L A N D S - L * 11 March 2006 * Volume 04
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From: Kevin Caldwell <kevin.caldwell1963 at verizon.net>
Subject: LL-L "Language contacts" 2006.03.11 (01) [E]

>From: Isaac M. Davis <isaacmacdonalddavis at gmail.com>
>Subject: LL-L "Language contacts" 2006.03.10 (05) [E]
>
>Jim Krause wrote:
>>
>> I remember my father using such expressions as "yesterday evening."  This
>> impressed me as being rather an ethnic form of speech, a direct
>> transliteration of our Plautdietsch phrase "jistre ovent."
>
>That sounds non-standard? I would say 'last night' in most situations, but
>if I was specifically talking about the evening of last night, I'd say
>'yesterday evening'. Native speaker, from Ontario, Canada.
>
>Isaac M. Davis
>
'Yesterday evening' sounds pretty standard to me too. There are also the 
following, which are more archaic, colloquial, dialectal, or even quaint:

yesterevening
yestereven
yestereve
yestreen

Kevin Caldwell 

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