yestereve

Jun. 23rd, 2022 06:40 am
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[personal profile] prettygoodword
Continuing on the subject of days:


yestereve (YES-ter-EEV) - n. & adv., (arch.) yesterday evening.


A compound first written down around 1600, making it another colorful Elizabethan coinage. Lovely cadence, that word.

---L.

Date: 2022-06-23 02:55 pm (UTC)
dewline: Text - "On the DEWLine" (Default)
From: [personal profile] dewline
Sounds like a useful word. More useful than it's been allowed to be by cultural forces.

Date: 2022-06-23 05:52 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] thistleingrey
Before it, sometimes people wrote "yestren," which resembles German gestern but is yester + even squashed....

Date: 2022-06-24 01:29 am (UTC)
octahedrite: elf girl with a slight smile (Default)
From: [personal profile] octahedrite

Pretty nice word

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