__a hot summer day, on or in? (2025)

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kkx8

New Member

Chinese

  • Aug 22, 2013
  • #1

hello everybody.I'm an english learner. "on a hot summer day" is absolutely right.But sometimes I hear someone say"in a hot summer day". Is it also correct or is there a difference between the two?Please help me out. Thanks in advance.__a hot summer day, on or in? (1)

  • heypresto

    Senior Member

    South East England

    English - England

    • Aug 22, 2013
    • #2

    I can't imagine a sentence in which 'in a hot summer day' would sound right.

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    pob14

    Senior Member

    Central Illinois

    American English

    • Aug 22, 2013
    • #3

    Some discussion is in this old thread. I would say "on."

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    pob14

    Senior Member

    Central Illinois

    American English

    • Aug 22, 2013
    • #5

    But for smaller segments of a day, it's generally "in," as Carroll also said:

    All in the golden afternoon
    Full leisurely we glide;

    (And yes, this entire post was just an excuse to quote Carroll. __a hot summer day, on or in? (3))

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    kkx8

    New Member

    Chinese

    • Aug 22, 2013
    • #6

    Thank you so much gentlemen. Here I found a piece of news from BBC. bbc.co.uk/news/10225773

    "....It would be really a challenge to take him [Nelson Mandela] out in a cold winter day to go and watch a game of football," he said."

    Should it be on here?__a hot summer day, on or in? (4)

    Myridon

    Senior Member

    Texas

    English - US

    • Aug 22, 2013
    • #7

    kkx8 said:

    Thank you so much gentlemen. Here I found a piece of news from BBC. bbc.co.uk/news/10225773

    "....It would be really a challenge to take him [Nelson Mandela] out in a cold winter day to go and watch a game of football," he said."

    Should it be on here?__a hot summer day, on or in? (6)

    Yes, it should in my opinion. This is a direct quote from someone speaking. Native speakers of English make mistakes when speaking. Additionally, the speaker, Mandla Mandela, is from South Africa. English is one of several official languages of South Africa. I'm not sure if English is his first language, but he does have a strong accent which makes transcription errors a possibility or it could be something common to speakers of South African English.

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    kkx8

    New Member

    Chinese

    • Aug 23, 2013
    • #8

    Thanks to you all__a hot summer day, on or in? (7)

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    Thomas Tompion

    Member Emeritus

    Southern England

    English - England

    • Aug 23, 2013
    • #9

    exgerman said:

    [...]

    Of course, we wouldn't say summer's in prose.

    It's difficult when someone says 'Of course, we wouldn't do X', when one believes we would do X.

    I can think of plenty of occasions where we would say and have said 'summer's day' in prose.

    Kkx8, you make it hard for us to read you if you don't capitalize meticulously, and, particularly, if you don't put spaces between your sentences.

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    Rover_KE

    Senior Member

    Northwest England - near Blackburn, Lancashire

    British English

    • Aug 23, 2013
    • #10

    The explanation might be as simple as this:

    'It is also possible (but unlikely) that the BBC transcript of the quote contains an error. It is easy to type "in" when you mean "on" because "I" and "O" are next to each other on the keyboard.'
    (emsr2d2 in post #5 here)

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