WHY???

[curiousa2z]

Why do we say "in the morning", "in the afternoon", "in the evening", but
"AT night?



Why?

 

[curiousa2z]

is it simply to torture unsuspecting, foreign-speaking, well, foreigners??

 

[curiousa2z]

Probably.

 

[Cassie]

Because night is where it's at!

 

[curiousa2z]

that's a pretty good notion as any!

 

[Dr Dave]

Just one of the many quirks of the English language.

 

[Blindgroping]

The Dove Flies AT Dawn!!

 

[Dr Dave]

The wolf eats the cheese.

 

[Cassie]

THE BOGEYMAN LIKES TO SNEEZE

 

[Fuddlemiff]

Well, we say "in the night" as well, but only if something happened "in the night".

 

[curiousa2z]

yeah, I was too lazy to write it out:
so we'd say [xtime] in the morning, [xtime] in the afternoon, [xtime] in the evening but then we would never say [xtime] in the night, we'd say [xtime] at night...

 

[CaptainWacky]

WHAT WOULD WE SAY INSTEAD?

 

[curiousa2z]

TO BE CONTINUED?

 

[Dr Dave]

Next on fox.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

The only time I hear "in the night' is in regards to a bump, or the blues.

 

[Fuddlemiff]

And then there's overnight.

 

[Fuddlemiff]

Btw, this is a good question for the "Why doesn't Whoopi Goldberg have eyebrows and other unanswerable questions" group on Facebook.

http://www.facebook.com/groups/edit.php?members&gid=6126854716#/group.php?gid=6126854716&ref=ts

 

[FBI parte due]

In an alternate futuristic society, a tough female police detective is paired with a talking dinosaur to find the killer of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals leading them to a mad scientist bent on creating a new Armageddon.

 

[CaptainWacky]

It's gold, Jerry, gold!