 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 googled it - it's from Tenesee Williams' The Glass Menagerie. So definitely not a slip.
I then tried the others - the "bosom of faith" example is from a Nathaniel Hawthorne short story, and so could be explained by changes in the language over time - though I still don't remember coming across it before.
The "bus" example didn't come up, but the concordancer confirmed it's a written text. So again, not a slip. But very odd. |