tonight

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

In a message dated 7/5/2000 9:21:46 PM, nee1 at MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU writes:

<< 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 doubt that all of this is related to the fact that, here in the South, the
word "evening" is normally used by native speakers to refer to any time after
noon.