From: kehoea@parhasard.net   
      
    Ar an chéad lá is fiche de mí Iúil, scríobh Athel Cornish-Bowden:   
      
    > 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.   
      
   I think she was just wrong. “This right” vs “next right” is a useful   
   distinction to have, and she didn’t have it. This ignores the   
   what-is-the-first-day-of-the-week other ambiguity of your second example.   
      
   An awkward thing to look into for evidence, even in these days of large   
   corpora.   
      
   --   
   ‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /   
   How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’   
   (C. Moore)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)