Date:  Thu, 14 Mar 1996 14:53:49 EST

From:  Betty Phillips <EJPHILL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ROOT.INDSTATE.EDU>

Subject: Re: Thursday next, etc.



My intuitions accord with Natalie's. Thursday week is always a week

from next Thursday. (I'm from south Georgia.)



Betty Phillips

ejphill[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]root.indstate.edu





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From:      Natalie Maynor <maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

Subject:    Re: Thursday next, etc.

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>   I would be interested to know whether such retrospective

> constructions as "Thursday last" or "Thursday week" (meaning "a week ago

> Thursday") coexist in the speech of those Southern American speakers who

> have "Thursday week" in its prospective sense.



It would never enter my mind to interpret "Thursday week" as anything

other than a week from next Thursday. That's the only meaning I've ever

intended when using it.

  --Natalie (maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ra.msstate.edu)