To Do Something of the Morning

John says that many of the older patients in his Northeast Tennessee orthopedics clinic will refer to habitual activity as occurring of the morning or of the evening. The vastly more common versions of these phrases in the South and South Midlands of the United States are of a morning and of an evening. This is part of a complete episode.

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  • Interesting to know this old expression is still around, and may be morphing from “of a morning” to “of THE morning.” I wonder if the traditional “of a …” may be getting crossed with the much more prevalent “in the …” to produce “of the….”

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