Grammar pedants - help please.
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8:28am, 9 Apr 2025
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Muttley
Also known as Sunday week ![]() |
9 Apr
9:58am, 9 Apr 2025
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larkim
Glad there's at least a little inconsistency around here! If it was Monday, tomorrow is not next Tuesday. That would be a week on Tuesday. But Saturday in this week is next Saturday (to me). The one in 12 days time would be a week on Saturday. But Wednesday? I don't think that would be next Wednesday; next Wednesday would probably be a week on Wednesday. Thursday / Friday I'm not so sure about; I'd have to find a way to clarify it. |
9 Apr
10:04am, 9 Apr 2025
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Diogenes
It can’t be the next anything if there is another one of the same beforehand.
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9 Apr
10:13am, 9 Apr 2025
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larkim
Logically I agree @Diogenes But is tomorrow next Thursday to you?
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9 Apr
10:27am, 9 Apr 2025
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Diogenes
No, that's this Thursday, although it's not this coming Thursday as it's too imminent. This coming Friday is acceptable. At the time of writing there is no "next Thursday", only tomorrow week.
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9 Apr
10:34am, 9 Apr 2025
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larkim
I clearly live in a hinterland where there needs to be a "next Thursday"; I can't accept that it disappears!
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9 Apr
12:09pm, 9 Apr 2025
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GordonG
There clearly needs to be a national campaign, led by some National Treasure Celebrity to promote it, where we all agree on terminology. Having read through the comments so far, I'd suggest that Next Sunday is the next occurrence of Sunday - regardless of whether it's 1 or 6 days away - with Sunday Week being the 2nd Sunday, again regardless of how many days away the first Sunday is. Is Stephen Fry available? Or Judi Dench? |
9 Apr
2:49pm, 9 Apr 2025
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Dvorak
Today (being Wednesday), the Sunday in four days time in Sunday coming. But if I was outlining things happening on the two next Sundays, I might call Sunday coming this Sunday, and the following one next Sunday. And what of preceding Sundays? Until the Sunday following, I probably wouldn't refer the one before as last Sunday, unless in direct reference to things on Sundays past and future. It would be Sunday there, or just Sunday. |
9 Apr
3:13pm, 9 Apr 2025
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larkim
It must be great learning English and discovering that "next" will normally mean "coming immediately after the present one in order, rank, or space" apart from when talking about days when it sometimes will mean that, and sometimes won't!
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9 Apr
3:19pm, 9 Apr 2025
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paulcook
This Sunday and next Sunday are the same thing.
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