Timeline for "On the weekend" or "during the weekend"
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| Mar 16, 2012 at 14:03 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @David Wallace: I don't see I have much choice sometimes on a site called English Language & Usage, where clearly the word means Anglophone. If Constantine did indeed mean of England it's appallingly ambiguous usage in this context. Either the wording of the answer is misleading, or it's incorrect anyway; whichever way I look at it, it's definitely downvotable in my eyes. | |
| Mar 16, 2012 at 8:08 | comment | added | user16269 | @FumbleFingers - so you give out downvotes for someone using the word "English" to mean "characteristic of England"? Interesting! | |
| Mar 16, 2012 at 3:02 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | -1: Per my usage charts, you're very likely British. If you'd said "normal British usage" I'd have either upvoted, or at least not downvoted. But given Americans overwhelmingly use on, and given there are far more of them than there are Brits, this answer is simply wrong. | |
| Mar 16, 2012 at 2:57 | history | edited | FumbleFingers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 6, 2011 at 3:30 | comment | added | Percy P. | You're both right. The Brits & Irish say "at" and North Americans "on". And "late(r) in the weekend" is common on both sides I believe. | |
| Jan 5, 2011 at 23:17 | comment | added | Marthaª | There must be a regional difference at play here: to me, at the weekend sounds awkward at best. | |
| Jan 5, 2011 at 22:34 | history | answered | Constantine | CC BY-SA 2.5 |