Talk:tomorrow

Latest comment: 2 years ago by Backinstadiums in topic Noun: 2. a future period or time (cf. yesterday

The Dutch word 'morgen' meaning tomorrow has nothing to do with the morgen Wiktionary page so I removed the link. maybe that's also true for other languages but I can't be sure.

"30 years tomorrow" edit

I saw a curious construct today in The Register [1]: "[The Jupiter Ace computer] first went on sale 30 years tomorrow." I can see similar much older usages in Google Books, e.g. "Do you remember that it is 30 years tomorrow since Sidney Herbert died?" Equinox 10:32, 21 September 2012 (UTC)Reply

The lack of "The" edit

What is it about tomorrow that makes "The tomorrow" sound so odd?

English doesn't do that with days: we also don't say "the today" or "the yesterday". Originally in history, the to was a preposition, so "tomorrow" was not a noun, therefore would not take "the". Equinox 18:11, 26 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

Pronunciation edit

In ~ morning/night also /-ə, -u/ ; in ~ afternoon/evening also /-u/ --Backinstadiums (talk) 11:45, 11 August 2021 (UTC)Reply

Noun: 2. a future period or time (cf. yesterday edit

Noun: 2. a future period or time: [uncountable] the high-tech world of tomorrow. [countable] I stored up a lot of empty tomorrows. --Backinstadiums (talk) 11:57, 11 August 2021 (UTC)Reply

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