Thank you for the explanation, Colleen!

Word of the day: lawyer up

What does it mean: O-leg fit?

@CowperKettle I have no idea... I must be old and unfashionable...

I found that it refers to a curved inseam: answers.com/Q/What_are_o_leg_jeans

Though I have no objection with dropping "on" there, but at the same time I have preference with preposition "on" before "Tuesday" in this case.

And I thought it is more common to insert "on" there in such sentences until I found this comment :

@Man_From_India That is similar to what I was going to say - My car broke down Monday, so I had to Uber to work this week.

I could put "on" in there but since I'm talking about the nearest Monday I don't need to

I'm not sure exactly why grammatically :) It also works for the future - I will pick up my car Thursday.

@ColleenV Hmm is it really has to do with nearness?

@Man_From_India I don't know if that's accurate - it's more about knowing which Monday

Because as far as I can see in corpus most of the cases tend to have "on" in such cases. A few spoken instance do have "on" dropped. But I really haven't looked into all those sentences from corpus regarding their semantic difference. Actually it didn't occur to me that there can be such difference at least to some extent based on "on" there. I need to look into those sentences again more attentively :-)

I wouldn't want to leave the on off in "I play tennis on Mondays" but I wouldn't think it awful if someone left it off. I'll have to think about it.

I think for me to be comfortable with it, I would only drop the on when I was talking about "last Monday" or "this coming Monday"

Interesting

hehe right.

Maybe it's because "Monday I went to work. Tuesday I stayed home." is OK, so I don't have a problem inverting the word order "I went to work Monday."

> The natural use shown in He normally eats fish on Fridays varies occas. with the type He normally eats fish Fridays, i.e. with omission of on, esp. in AmE. Only an American, I think, would say I saw you Friday (cf. Noriega ... said Monday the U.S. Southern Command in Panama ... threatens the Central American nation —USA Today, 1988), but there is a great deal of variation in such contexts in rapid speech.

This is from Fowler's Moder English Usage under the entry FRIDAY.

This book didn't mention any slight difference in meaning. But that doesn't mean there should not be any difference. Yet, reading that part from the book seems like there is no difference.

@ColleenV Thank you!