But in the past, a moment was 1/12 of the amount of time it took from sunrise to sunset.Ī galactic year is the amount of time it takes the solar system to travel around the galactic core-about 250 million years.Īnd a Sol is a day on Mars. If you were to cut one 24-hour day into 100 parts, 1 part would be one Kermit.Ī moment is used to mean “a short but unknown amount of time”.
We have a lot of strange names for periods of time that most people don’t know about.Ī Kermit is 14.4 minutes. This would suggest that even if it used to be known among small groups of people, or among people with similar interests, it’s not a word that people would be using daily. But I quickly came to find that the latest example of people using this word is from the 1800s.Īnd even when people were using this word, there aren’t more than 10 examples of it having been published (that I could find anyway). I tried looking at published examples by checking out samples on Google Books. The word “overmorrow” has not been used for a very long time. The only challenge is getting people to know what it means. It makes you sound like you’re a kind of wizard or someone who’s just stepped out of a fantasy novel.Īnd the other reason is that it’s quicker than saying “the day after tomorrow”- which has 7 syllables, compared to “overmorrow”‘s 4. It’s one of those words that makes you seem like you know a lot of words. I think it should.įirstly, let’s be honest here. Why it shouldĮven though it hasn’t caught on. But most people have never used that word regularly. It was invented by one single author, and used by a few others. A similar fate will likely meet many of the words that we use today.Īnd another theory says that it was never popular. As the culture changed, so did the language that we used. The first one is that talking in Middle English grew out of style when the medieval times came to an end. Why it hasn’t caught onįinding out about such a word made me question why I didn’t know about this before.Īnd there are two competing theories as to why “overmorrow” isn’t a regular part of our lexicon.
Interesting how “tomorrow” has caught on, but “overmorrow” hasn’t. In the past, this is how everyone would have said, “In the morning”. You may have noticed in Game of Thrones, the characters might say “On the morrow” in situations where we would say “tomorrow”. Over means after, which is why we say words such as “overflow”- it’s what happens after the flow.Īnd morrow means morning, although “tomorrow” just refers to the day after today. Overmorrow combines two words: Over and tomorrow. EtymologyĮvery word (no matter whether it’s an official word, or just a slang word) has an etymology. Watch the video: Only 1 percent of our visitors get these 3 grammar questions right.
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