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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.
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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exgerman
Senior Member
NYC
US English
- Aug 22, 2013
- #4
pob14 said:
Some discussion is in this old thread. I would say "on."
So would Lewis Carroll, quoting an anonymous 18-th century poem:
The Queen of Hearts
she made some tarts
all on a summer's day.
Of course, we wouldn't say summer's in prose.
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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. )
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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?
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?
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
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Thomas Tompion
Member Emeritus
Southern England
English - England
- Aug 23, 2013
- #9
exgerman said:
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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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