Re: [ADS-L] "I'll s ee you on tomorrow"; was: Re: Is it ju st me or ...

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

One can of course say, "I'll see you on the morrow," though it sounds rather 
stilted and archaic. I've nevder checked the etymology of TOMORROW -- always 
assumed it was a contraction of "the morrow" (with the voiced fricative 
becoming a stop as it does so frequently in English dialects, and with the stop also 
becoming voiceless--a little harder to explain, I suppose).

In a message dated 7/7/06 3:22:10 PM, zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU writes:


> On Jul 6, 2006, at 6:16 PM, Jerry Cohen wrote:
> 
> >
> >> From Brenda Lester, Thu 7/6/2006 3:41 PM:
> >   My sister hates, "I'll see you on tomorrow."
> >  <snip>
> >
> > * * * * * * * * *
> >
> > This looks like a blend: (spoken e.g.,  on  Monday): "I'll see you
> > tomorrow" + "I'll see you on Tuesday."
> 
> it's pretty common, and has even made it into Paul Brians's Common
> Errors list
> 

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