From: me@yahoo.com   
      
   I'm wondering how common ambiguity in the word "next" is. My first   
   wife, when I was driving and she was giving directions, would say, for   
   example, "take the next right", which we would understand differently;   
   for me the next right would mean right at the intersection we are just   
   coming to. For her it meant the one after it. There was a similar   
   ambiguity for weeks. If I say "next week" I mean the week that starts   
   tomorrow, Monday 22nd July: for her it would mean the week that starts   
   on the 29th.   
      
   In case it's relevant, I mention that my ex-wife is from California,   
   one of the few native adult Californians that I ever came across when I   
   lived in California.   
      
      
   --   
   Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 37 years; mainly   
   in England until 1987.   
      
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