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- Why is our todays meeting wrong? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
The phrase our today's meeting is commonly used in Indian English, even though other dialects of English frown upon it The mentioned examples in the comments of our today's specials and our today's speaker will, I think, sound off to many speakers, but possibly not as much as our today's meeting
- grammar - Can we interchange phrases Whats the date today? and . . .
What is the Date today would technically mean you were asking the number of the day, like October the 18th But if you were to say "What is the Day today" would make you be asking the name of the day, like Sunday
- american english - Origins and history of on tomorrow, on today . . .
The phrases " on tomorrow," " on today," and " on yesterday " are commonly heard in the southern region of the United States They are acceptable in casual speech and other informal contexts, but should not be used in formal contexts such as academic writing
- What day is it today? vs. What day is today?
The last example means something different, though “What day is (it) today?” refers to the day of the week, not the date
- Why is today morning wrong but tomorrow morning right?
I think it is a good question When there is yesterday morning and tomorrow morning, why have an exception for this morning (which means today's morning)? Yes, idiom, but I actually do like idiomatic extensions like these - as long as everybody knows what is meant and no grammar or semantic rules are violated
- Change from to-day to today - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
In old books, people often use the spelling "to-day" instead of "today" When did the change happen? Also, when people wrote "to-day", did they feel, when pronouncing the word, that it contained two
- Grammatical term for words like yesterday, today, tomorrow
The 2002 reference grammar by Huddleston and Pullum et al , The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, would consider words like yesterday, today, tonight, and tomorrow as pronouns (specifically, deictic temporal pronouns) Related info is in CGEL pages 429, 564-5
- Which is correct? . . . . . as from today or from today onwards
Two other options (in addition to "as from today," "from today," and "effective today") are "beginning today" and "as of today " These may be more U S -idiomatic forms than British-idiomatic forms (the two "from" options have a British English sound to me, although "effective today" does not); but all five options are grammatically faultless, I believe
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