The words I am talking about are those from this weeks email, like hodiernal.

Would it be correct and proper to say "I had a hodiernal meeting", or a hesternal appointment?

thanks!

daniel

hodiernal seems to be mostly used in grammar/linguistics discussions; viz., the hodiernal past (tense), which is used to express same-day events.

hesternal, then, is used for yesterday's events, and pre-hodiernal for previous to yesterday..

but I found this cite from Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (yes, *that Bulwer-Lytton): In enervating slumbers, from the hesternal dissipation or debauch. (or, he was trying to sleep off a hangover).

Yesterdays word: overmorrow is the literal equivalent of overmorgen = the day after tomorrow in up to date Dutch. Does English maybe also have ereyesterday = eergisteren?

Not that I know of, Branny. Everybody I know says the day before yesterday.