Timeline for Missing words in English
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| Jan 7, 2013 at 14:47 | comment | added | John Lawler | That's simply a modified sense of day for a special purpose, just as car in the sense of cattle car is a special use of the word for automobile. Fillmore is trying to explain the basic concepts these special uses come from. If he tried to explain all the variation, he'd never finish. | |
| Jan 7, 2013 at 8:00 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | Consider children who are allowed to play outside by day but not by night, or people who work the day shift versus those who work the night shift. In other words, what about the kind of day that is the opposite of night? That kind of day fits neither of your two definitions as far as I can tell, which seems to show that they do not together define all possible sorts of time. When I work all day, I assure you I do not work 24 hours! | |
| Dec 27, 2012 at 17:22 | history | edited | John Lawler | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 26, 2012 at 22:35 | history | answered | John Lawler | CC BY-SA 3.0 |