Timeline for Is "yesterday night" acceptable?
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| Dec 25, 2012 at 6:48 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | Certainly yestereve and yestermorn both exist, or at least, did so once upon a time under the fresh-fallen snows of yesteryear. OED citations: “§1859 Tennyson Marr. Geraint 702 ― And yester-eve I would not tell you of it, But kept it for a sweet surprise at morn. §1864 W. C. Bryant Italy 39 ― Slaves but yester-eve were they-Freeman with the dawning day.” There was also yestern, meaning “of yesterday” and functioning as both adjective and adverb. OED citation: “1891 Ld. Houghton Stray Verses 85, ― I linger on the oaken bridge Fine-filigreed with yestern snow.” | |
| Dec 25, 2012 at 6:39 | history | answered | user31341 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |