Instances of unmodified hair-day

[DEBBIE SAWCZAK]

Exactly.

in reply to:

>>> "Donald M. Lance" <LanceDM at MISSOURI.EDU> - 2/16/2000 1:17 PM >>>
It's a matter of reference, not ideolect or "correct" bracketing.  We have snow days.  We
have travel days.  When dieting, we have carb days, meat days, potassium & calcium days,
etc.  I have good and bad computer days, and I have stupid-computer days.  And we've
recently had computer-hacker days, which can be shortened to hacker days.

DMLance

RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:

> YES YES YES!
>
> ****in reply to:
> ... I don't understand why one analysis or the other has to prevail for each
> and every occasion. ... Why can't the structure go back and forth? Or even
> remain ambiguous at the point of utterance?