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Post by Dame Dorothia Karloff on Mar 16, 2014 13:52:16 GMT -5
i wanted a word or phrase for a week ago on sunday.i looked in Words of Course and looked under intervals of time.it referenced years but nothing else.what would you say for days past?
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Post by Sir Didymous LaRoth on Mar 16, 2014 14:06:15 GMT -5
Well there are a few period specific references to lengths of time, but none for that one that I have found. I would use "'Twere a week ago as of Sunday." or something along those lines. Translation is an art not a science, so there can be several ways to say the same thing.
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Post by Dame Dorothia Karloff on Mar 17, 2014 21:50:25 GMT -5
So the phrase, a week past hence could loosely work?
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Post by Sir Didymous LaRoth on Mar 18, 2014 18:47:17 GMT -5
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Post by Dame Dorothia Karloff on Mar 20, 2014 22:14:06 GMT -5
Thanks for the feed back.this may seem like a dumb question but are there. A lot of old english. Words in the dictionary that will fit our time period?
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Post by Sir Didymous LaRoth on Mar 29, 2014 17:44:26 GMT -5
Well, many of the words are there. However, many are variations on words used then and/or have new meanings. The best reference for this type of word usage is the Oxford English Dictionary. It normally explains the etymology of the words and gives the earliest verifiable usage. The Webster's give the basic etymology, but not the date.
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