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Jam tomorrow
Jam tomorrow or (older spelling) jam to-morrow is an expression for a never-fulfilled promise. It originates from Lewis Carroll's 1871 book ''Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Jam tomorrow )〕 In the book the White Queen offers Alice "jam every other day" as an inducement to work for her:
==Latin Pun==
The quote can be taken as a pun on Latin grammar, because the Queen is reciting a "rule" that expresses a rule of Latin grammar: "iam" means "now" in Latin, but only when speaking in the past or future. In the present the word for now is "nunc." So, "jam () tomorrow, jam yesterday, but never jam today," is actually a good mnemonic for the rule. (Note that in Latin, "i" and "j" were not distinct characters; "iam" and "jam" are the same).
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