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Titolo: new word (per me)

I found it in a translation of an interview (to Simenon): yesteryear.
I've been told it is an old fashioned one.
Since I liked it (and didn't know it), I thought of posting it j.i.c.
Cheers
CC

 I've been told it is an old fashioned one.
    Indeed, it is not a word you commonly come across. But it is not an
extremely archaic term either. This is what the Oxford English Dictionary
says about it:
yester-year.
[Coined by D. G. Rossetti to render F. antan (:---L. ante annum) in François
Villon's Grand Testament, Ball. i.]
Last year.
1870 Rossetti Three Transl. fr. Villon i, But where are the snows of
yester-year?
1871 R. Buchanan in St. Paul's Mag. Apr. 88 No crime of yesterday or
yesteryear.
1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robt. Elsmere xxxi, Where had the crude pretty child of
yester-year departed to?
1893 Daily Chron. 13 Sept. 3/1 The vogue of _Ernest Maltravers' has gone
with the snows of yesteryear.
    As you can see, not only is the word quite unusual, but it is hard to
find examples of its use by the beginning of the XX century.
    "Yester-" can be used with a number of time expressions:
yester-,
in comb. or as prefix = immediately preceding the present, last, in
yestereve, etc., after yesterday, yesternight; e.g.
yester-afternoon, -age, -noon, -tempest, -week.
    Bye,
           Nicola
--
Multa non quia difficilia sunt non audemus, sed quia non audemus sunt
difficilia (Seneca).

 yester-afternoon, -age, -noon, -tempest, -week.
I vaguely remember a pop song with yesterday yester you in the
lyrics. Unless I've misheard it all those years ago.
Loki
-- 
  Brevity is the soul of wit.    W.Shakespeare

 lyrics. Unless I've misheard it all those years ago.
Maybe these lyrics will jog your memory. Substitute for "yester," either "Mc" or
"Ji-ji-jack," and you may be able to resell the song to a burger franchise.
Ciao,
Ron
USA
Yester-me, yester-you, yesterday
What happened to the world we knew
When we would dream and scheme
And while the time away
Yester-me, yester-you, yesterday
Where did it go
That yester-glow
When we could feel
The wheel of life turn our way
Yester-me, yester-you, yesterday
I had a dream, so did you
Life was warm and love was true
Two kids who followed all the rules
Yester-fools
And now, now it seems
Those yester-dreams
Were just a cruel and foolish game
We used to play
Yester-me, yester-you, yesterday
When I recall what we had
I feel lost, I feel sad
With nothing but the memory of
Oh yester-love
(Stevie Wonder continua)

lyrics. Unless I've misheard it all those years ago.
Loki, it's Yesterme, Yesteryou, Yesterday sung by Stevie Woder.  It's one of my
all time favorite songs from the early 70s.  Here are the lyrics:
YESTERME YESTERYOU YESTERDAY
What happened to the world we knew
When we would dream and scheme
And while the time away
Yesterme yesteryou yesterday
Where did it go that yester glow
When we could feel
The wheel of life turn our way
Yesterme yesteryou yesterday
I had a dream so did you life
Was warm and love was true
Two kids who followed all the rules
Yester folls and now
Now it seems those yester dreams
Were just a cruel
And foolish game we used to play
Yesterme yesteryou yesterday
When I recall what we had
I feel lost I feel sad with nothing but
The memory of yester love and now
Now it seems those yester dreams
Were just a cruel
And foolish game we had to play
Yesterme yesteryou yesterday
Yesterme yesteryou yesterday
Sing with me
Yesterme yesteryou yesterday
One more time.....

yester-afternoon, -age, -noon, -tempest, -week.
I see (and thank you while I am at it).
How funny though. I've never thought of 'yester' as a prefix or sort of,
which indeed it is. Chissà perchè.
Ta
CC

 song to a burger franchise.
[snip, ta for the lyrics]
Puleeze no - or is it already sold? 
BTW I wonder why he never took advantage of the word yesteryear? 
Cheers,
loki

 are the lyrics:
Ta muchly. :-) all.
s'funny, I remembered a bit of the tune and lyrics but when I see the
lyrics I can't fit the tune at all. 
Cheers,
loki

 extremely archaic term either. 
days of yesteryear = giorni del passato; giorni antichi
Mi ricorda un programma radiofonico che ascoltavo da bambino:
Narratore:  Out of the paths of yesteryear come the thundering hooves
   of the great horse, Silver.  The Lone Ranger!
Lone Ranger:  Hi yo Silver, away!
poi si sente il finale della sinfonia di  GUGLIELMO TELL  di Rossini.
Che bei ricordi della gioventù.
-- 
Dale Erwin
http://home.earthlink.net/~erwintech

 poi si sente il finale della sinfonia di  GUGLIELMO TELL  di Rossini.
Perdonami, ma il "Guglielmo Tell" di Rossini è un'opera lirica, non una sinfonia.
Ciao,
     Nicola

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Sì, è un'opera lirica, ma all'inizio di quest'opera c'è una sinfonia.


 Sì, è un'opera lirica, ma all'inizio di quest'opera c'è una sinfonia.
    Ah! Allora riformulerei la tua frase come segue:
"poi si sente il finale della sinfonia del  GUGLIELMO TELL  di Rossini".
    In questo modo eviti ogni ambiguità.
    Pignoli saluti,


 Sì, è un'opera lirica, ma all'inizio di quest'opera c'è una sinfonia.
No, sorry Dale; the Lone Ranger theme tune was the William Tell
Overture.
A symphony's a standalone piece with (usually) 4 movements; an
overture's the introductory music to an opera.
Was there really a radio version of the Lone Ranger? I saw it on TV as a
child.
Mary
-- 
The trouble with reality is, there's no background music.

                        Nicola
Grazie, Nicola.  Ho capito.
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 Mary
This time you're wrong, Mary.  I have the score right here in front of me.
We might call it an overture in English, but the score definitely calls it
"Sinfonia."


 --
I stand corrected - I had no idea an overture was called a sinfonia in
Italian. How confusing!
Mary
-- 
Radioactive: individual who can't work without music.

Italian. How confusing!
Wait a sec, Mary. *That* one may have been christened "Sinfonia" by
its author in the context of that particular piece of work, but a
"sinfonia" is definitely what you describe above, and an ouverture is
definitely an ouverture, in Italian too-- the one bit without words
before the fat lady starts singin' :-)
-- 
Isa
Work like you don't need money,
Love like you've never been hurt,
And dance like no one's watching
http://web.tiscalinet.it/alfabeto_auschwitz/