1974, “AMon Like Thee”, inBest o't' Bunch[1], performed by The Oldham Tinkers:
Ee I'm allus glad to see amon like thee. That's as welcome lad, as welcome as can be. Fotch thi cheer up t'table. Stop as long as th'art able. Fer I'm allus glad to see amon like thee.
2020, “Black CountryMon”[2]performed by Johnny Cole:
I am a Black Countrymon. Yow dow know and the Brummies woh understond.
2000 November 25, Thomas Conner, “Digimon Top Ten Choice List”, inalt.fan.digimon[3] (Usenet):
Here they are, the fans voted for them, and here they are, theMons that can...
2003 February 15, sirSTACK, “Digimon #429”, inalt.fan.digimon[4] (Usenet):
When amon attacks him, he returns the same strike with the world "Reflection" after it, double the original strength.
2011 June 6, Clayton, “PW! - Training Interlude”, inalt.games.nintendo.pokemon[5] (Usenet):
And thus did it come to pass that the boy and the twomons, after a brief final discussion began the training.
(fandomslang) A video game oranime in which catching and battling creatures is an important element.
2001 May 27, Travis Anton, “Cigarette Smoke”, inalt.home.repair[6] (Usenet):
Pokemon, digimon and all other merchandisedmons, what good parent will disagree with me that those little invading, mind rotting things should be tolerated... those should be illegal, too...
2001 May 24, Horace Wachope, “Kids Toys”, inalt.ozdebate[7] (Usenet):
And dont buy Pokemon or Digimon or any other bloodyMons or you will never hear the ned[sic] of it :-)
2003 December 9, tito, “Main difference between anime and U.S. cartoons?”, inrec.arts.anime.misc[8] (Usenet):
At any rate Digimon was the bestmon/collector series we've seen yet, to the point its popularity was prolly bigger here than its marketing.
2011 September 1, Alan Bissett,Pack Men, Hachette UK,→ISBN:
'Sing up, runt,' he goes, slapping my back friendly/forceful.'Mon the Rangers!'
2014 April 14, Martin Travers,Scarfed For Life: 2nd edition, A&C Black,→ISBN:
Narrator: Jack's a Celtic fan. Jack:Mon the hoops!
2022 April 19, Ian Winwood,Bodies: Life and Death in Music, Faber & Faber,→ISBN:
I caught sight of a lake of faces chanting'Mon the Biff!Mon the Biff!" – come on the Biffy Clyro – with a startling and percussive unity.'Mon. The. Biff!''Mon. The. Biff!''Mon. The. Biff!'
In unstressed position in Vulgar Latinmeum, meam etc. were monosyllabic and regularly becamemon, ma etc. in Catalan. When stressed they were disyllabic and becamemeu,mia >meua etc.
The use ofmon and the other possessive determiners is mostly archaic in the majority of dialects, with articulated possessive pronouns (e.g.el meu) mostly being used in their stead. However,mon,ton, andson are still widely used before certain nouns referring to family members and some affective nouns, such asamic,casa, andvida. Which nouns actually find use with the possessive determiners depends greatly on the locale.
The standard masculine plural form ismos, butmons can be found in some dialects.
From the (now obsolete) present of the modal verbmonne(“may, might”), via a false interpretation of sentences likehvor mon han bo? (“where may he live?”) ashvor mon han bor? (“where, I wonder, does he live?”).
The adverb is only used in direct or indirect questions. It is usually located in the second place in the sentence, i.e. where one would expect to find the finite verb (cf. the etymology). The finite, on the other hand, is placed in the second part of the sentence, where one would expect to find an infinitive.
(possessive)my (used to qualify masculine nouns and vowel-initial words regardless of gender)
J’ai perdumon chapeau.
I lostmy hat.
La décision a été prise pendantmon absence.
The decision was taken inmy absence.
Followed by rank, obligatory way of addressing a (male) superior officer within the military. (Folk etymology: military-specific short for "monsieur".)
Mon is used before all singular nouns beginning with a vowel or a mute H, even those that are feminine. However,ma is used with singular feminine nouns beginning with either a consonant or an aspirated H.
1 Also used before feminine adjectives and nouns beginning with a vowel ormute h. 2 Also used as the polite singular form. For the singular persons there are gender-neutral neologismsman,tan,san. These are extremely rare.
Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008),Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[10], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
