On 31/03/17 14:34, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 31 March 2017 14:04:03 rhkramer@gmail.com wrote: >> To specify the Thursday before the last Thursday, use something like: "the >> Thursday before last Thursday". >> >> To specify the Thursday after the coming Thursday, use something like: "the >> Thursday after next Thursday". > > Great - all fine in theory. But you try announcing a meeting that way!!! > Here in England we debate it, meaning that I and my husband disagree. When I > say "next Thursday", I mean the Thursday next week. When he says next > Thursday he means the next Thursday to arrive, i.e. this Thursday. We are > both English, but I Cockney-born and he Yorkshire. By definition you're wrong| A Yorkshireman trumps anyone else. :-) > And let us clear up another misunderstanding while we are at it. The other > side of the pond you appear to be under a delusion that there is such a thing > as British anything, including English. Try telling that to the Welsh, the > Irish and the Scots! Too right. English is the source of all the other dialects and it's tautological to prepend 'British' when referring to the language used in Great Britain.
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