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Thursday last, I got to counting the days before Christmas and this childhood habit brought to mind the term "penultimate" to describe the day before the Eve of Christmas and then to "antepenultimate" to describe the day prior to that.My verbal obsession naturally posited the question "What's the term describing the day before the antepenultimate day?" My wife says it's "Four shopping days till Christmas!" I'm hoping there's a more elegant possibility.

Anteantepenultimate?

Brazilian dude

Thanks, but I think we need to "up the ante".

As BD says: anteantepenultimate or, I found preantepenultimate!

Nothing in the dictionary. I guess in English we are stuck with the phrase, "before the antepenultimate."

Apo

Thanks, I like preantepenultimate! Kind of sounds like a geologic period sometime before the Jurassic.