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Forum: English Questions Jul 18th, 2009, 02:02 am
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Posted By susan53
Re: 'at morning' to mean 'in the morning' ?

Ah well - my bet is that it was a collocation like at morning break with the preposition collocating with the second noun ...

If she comes up ith lots of these, tell her to always note down the...
Forum: English Questions Jul 10th, 2009, 06:23 am
Replies: 7
Views: 6,913
Posted By susan53
Re: 'at morning' to mean 'in the morning' ?

PS - this has been bugging me all morning. Were these examples just slips? But they seemed to be written texts so it was less likely.

The "Mrs Wingfield" example intrigued me particularly, so I...
Forum: English Questions Jul 10th, 2009, 02:11 am
Replies: 7
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Posted By susan53
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...
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