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word choice - On tomorrow vs. by tomorrow - English Language . . . by tomorrow makes sense, but technically it means that when tomorrow arrives the thing in question will already be done In other words, by there means before On tomorrow I have never heard used, and would consider incorrect English However, I have seen on the morrow used It is kind of an archaic way of saying that something will be done in
Is there a word for the day after overmorrow and the day before . . . I know overmorrow (the day after tomorrow) and ereyesterday (the day before yesterday) themselves are obsolete alike I would like to know whether English has ever had words for one day farther than that, I mean "the day after overmorrow" and "the day before ereyesterday"
Is it proper grammar to say on today and on tomorrow? However (and I cannot back this up with a citation), in general, most English speakers in the US would not use "on" before "today" or "tomorrow " There are also interesting points about the etymology of "today" and "tomorrow" (think of the archaic usage "on the morrow") that are beyond the scope of what you're asking
Tomorrow and the day after - English Language Learners Stack Exchange Yes, it's been pushing up daisies, but no definite ones, for a century The answer might still be interesting if @IrwellPete were motivated to expand it by adding references, as suggested, and perhaps by pointing out that English seems to be the only Germanic language which lacks an "accepted" word for the day after tomorrow
american english - Origins and history of on tomorrow, on today . . . "Tomorrow" comes from "to morrow" or "the morrow", literally meaning "to the next day" "On tomorrow" would be another way of saying "on the morrow" "On today" and "on yesterday" have similar etymologies meaning "on the current day" or "on the previous day" Etymologically, "tomorrow" and "today" are both Old Middle English
Is there a one-word English term for the day after tomorrow? In German Morgen still means both morning and tomorrow; in English morrow, a variant of morning, came to be used in the latter sense The to- is probably a fossilized definite article In German, with its transparent morphology, there is a word Übermorgen that means the day after tomorrow , but English is morphologically naked
grammar - tomorrow morning vs. tomorrows morning - English Language . . . Tomorrow morning, tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow evening and tomorrow night they all refer to different periods of the day after “today” Whereas the possessive apostrophe is used in: a good night's sleep (a good night of sleep) The possessive apostrophe replaces "of" and adds an "s" several good nights' sleep (several good nights of sleep)
etymology - What word can I use instead of tomorrow that is not . . . However, tomorrow is not as easy to translate Morrow comes from the Old English morgen, which means morning (Source: American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition) Therefore tomorrow means the next morning in its oldest variant, and the Old-English-speaking vampires would not use morrow or tomorrow, and would come up with their own words