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#125875 - 03/22/04 01:26 PM yon
wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858	From Mother Tongue, by Bill Bryson: Today we have two demonstrative pronouns, this and that, but in Shakespeare's day there was a third, yon, which denoted a further distance than that. You could talk about this hat, that hat, and yon hat. Today the word survives as a colloquialism, yonder, but our speech is fractionally impoverished for its loss.
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#125876 - 03/22/04 09:58 PM Re: yon
Fiberbabe old hand Registered: 01/12/01 Posts: 771 Loc: Portland, Oregon	There's a Spanish equivalent... esta mesa (this table), esa mesa (that table), and aquella mesa (yonder table). "Yonder" is a little rustic for my everyday speech, but that's the way it was described to me when I was learning Spanish...
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#125877 - 03/23/04 07:04 AM Re: yon
Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 7184 Loc: Vermont	hither is a good word. _________________________ formerly known as etaoin...
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#125878 - 03/23/04 09:02 AM Re: yon
jheem veteran Registered: 01/06/04 Posts: 1474 Loc: California	Words for here (by me), there (by you), and yonder (by him) are pretty common in languages. Some languages distinguish also a forth location, yon but not visible to you or me. Hither, thither, and yon.
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