Quick Question - The World As We Know It

This is what it says on Wikipedia - About Twilight - "Twilight is the time between dawn and sunrise or between sunset and dusk" And about Dusk - "Dusk is the beginning of darkness in the evening, and occurs after twilight, (during which the sky generally remains somewhat bright and blue)."

Yep, I think Well-wisher has this about right. Evening twilight turns to dusk and then to darkness. However, I'd say that poetically, as it were (and I suppose etymologically), they are substantially different in that twilight is metaphorically a soft light while dusk is characteristic of darkness. In that sense, they could almost be looked upon as opposites. Or, to put it another way, twilight is the end of day while dusk is the beginning of night. Helvigo Jenkins

Hi Jessica---the joy of writing for me is---trying to recreate word-thoughts, and new ways to say the same thing. ie instead of dawn/morning/early day I use "yolk of sun" which Ccould only allude to am. Instead of dusk/late evening/sundown I often use phrases like---blanket of sky/end of day/day's last smile. Even though I have been writing for a bit, many ABCTalers inspire me. Cheers, Richard LP

Nice thread. HJ is on it as usual - a safe pair of etymological hands if ever there was one. The key for me is that twilight can be used interchangeably for am and pm whereas dusk cannot, it is a word that is only of and belong to the evening. Ask Michael Howard, or was that something of the night....?