Tuesday 3 December 2013

Afternight

Afternight: noun. An alternate name for the morning, which is popular on the Isle of Man, as well as Guernsey. In fact, there has been a long on going debate between the islands of Guernsey and Jersey, where the people of the island of Jersey mock the inhabitants of Jersey for their silly usage of the word. It is also important to distinguish between the ways the the word is used on the Isle of Man and on Guernsey. On the Isle of Man the word is only used, if it is currently that time of day when the sentence is being spoken.  In other words you can only use it in the morning. However on Guernsey, it is the other way around, the word can only be used, when it isn't morning. The problem that arises, is that the Isle of Man and Guernsey, do not have the word "morning" and so during the morning on Guernsey, the morning is simply not referred to in the morning, and vice versa on the Isle of Man.

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