Timeline for Born on Tuesday, or born on a Tuesday?
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| Aug 22 at 18:45 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | @Astralbee - after six years! Took ill on Thursday / Worse on Friday / Died on Saturday / Buried on Sunday / This is the end / Of Solomon Grundy | |
| Aug 22 at 17:37 | comment | added | Astralbee | Solomon Grundy / Born on a Monday / Christened on Tuesday / Married on Wednesday. | |
| Jun 14, 2018 at 15:00 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | God forbid that anyone brings up the sad story of Solomon Grundy. | |
| Jun 14, 2018 at 9:57 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | I have corrected my answer above. | |
| Jun 14, 2018 at 9:55 | history | edited | Michael Harvey | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 14, 2018 at 9:19 | comment | added | arp | American usage also -- the new baby was born Thursday, but I was born (many years ago) on a Thursday. | |
| Jun 14, 2018 at 8:36 | comment | added | James K | Perhaps but actual usage tends to disagree. Both are possible with the version without the article being about twice as common. See the ngrams link in my answer. I also think you have made a typo in your answer and you mean " 'a' would avoid ambigutity". | |
| Jun 14, 2018 at 8:31 | comment | added | DoneWithThis. | "on a Tuesday" would avoid ambiguity - one of many Tuesdays, as opposed to last week. | |
| Jun 14, 2018 at 8:30 | comment | added | user3395 | @JamesK I agree, but I think there's some truth in this ell.stackexchange.com/a/79103/3395, and I would interpret it the same way, at least for a split second (I'm not a native speaker, though). Ha, there's a duplicate over on ELU: english.stackexchange.com/questions/272809/… (see the top-voted answer). | |
| Jun 14, 2018 at 8:25 | comment | added | James K | British speakers may be precocious compared to Americans, but very few of us can speak that well after one week! | |
| Jun 14, 2018 at 8:23 | history | answered | Michael Harvey | CC BY-SA 4.0 |