 Re: 'at morning' to mean 'in the morning' ?
Certainly not generally used in British English. Sounds odd to me. But I fed it into a concordancer and came up with two possibilities :
a) morning was being used as the first part of a compound noun, and at really collocated with the second part. So, I found eg : at morning prayers, at morning tea break, at morning playtime, at morning church ...
b) it is (very occasionally) used in both BEng and AmEng. I found these examples :
AmEng
.... he shrank from the bosom of Faith, and at morning or eventide, when the family knelt down at
... time-clocks to punch, Mrs. Wingfield. One at morning, another one at night!
BrEng
... seemed to arrive either by bus -- a bus at morning and evening stopped in the lane outside
But these are the only examples in a 56m word corpus. So it's clearly not common. Where did your student find it? |