Mid-morning

Mid-morning
 

In mid morning or at midmorning?

Mid-morning is how I would write it.

BNC has mid-morning 99, midmorning 7. On the other hand, we have midtown, midweek, midwinter, midsummer. midstream, midterm, and of course midwife which has nothing to do with it. :D:thinking:

Okay, and what about the preposition? "In" or "at"?

(We also have midfield, midday and midnight...)

Is a "midwife" perhaps "a wife occupying a middle place or position"?
And if so... (just kidding!)

It's cognate with German mit + Weib, the woman who is with (the woman giving birth)

Thank you, Perikles!

:d :d

Nobody answered my question do we use in or at in front of it?

at midday
at midnight

Likewise with midmorning?
At midmorning.

Yes, if midmorning is the object of the preposition.

English nouns can modify a noun. Such a noun is known as an adjunct. When midday, midnight or midmorning acts as an adjunct, it is then possible to use the preposition in. For example:

In midday traffic, the trip to the zoo takes twenty minutes longer.
I drove in midmorning fog to get to the airport.

Can I say I usually have breakfast in midmorning? It doesnt sound right to me, I have breakfast in the middle of the morning????

You could say it, but it sounds incorrect :D. Presumably because it is not a precise time, far too vague.

I don't think you can use mid-morning. How about

I have a very late breakfast
I have brunch

brunch is an almost accepted and known portmanteau word from breakfast + lunch, which is half-way between the two.

I make my bed in the middle of the morning?

In this case at mid-morning sounds better to me, but in the mid-morning is best.

You can say all sorts in any language.
These would be understood i am not sure why they would ever be used, maybe this is why they sound odd because they are never used.