Thanks TK. I will try to remember this little rule.
Isn't the English language wonderful, it has silent letters as well as silent words.
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Thanks TK. I will try to remember this little rule.
Isn't the English language wonderful, it has silent letters as well as silent words.
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glad to help - silence is golden
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If you were to say "next thursday" on, say, Saturday, it would be generally understood that you meant the coming Thursday. To clarify, I usually have to say something like "Not THIS Thursday, but the one after it".
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I generally take this to mean the next one coming up, even on Saturdays. And this week ends on a Saturday and begins on a Sunday. Not ending on a Sunday and beginning on a Monday like some think...
"A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own."
C.S. Lewis
"So many people tiptoe through life, so carefully, to arrive, safely, at death."
Jermaine Evans
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That depends on whether or not you're Jewish.Originally Posted by Uesugi Kenshin
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Huh? My Jewish friend uses the same calendar for day to day life, the lunar one is only for ceremonies. They wouldn't get far using a different calendar in this world, or at least the USA.
"A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own."
C.S. Lewis
"So many people tiptoe through life, so carefully, to arrive, safely, at death."
Jermaine Evans
Re: This - Next - Following - Native English speakers please.
It's not as easy as it would seem from this thread. Americans often differ on when they use "this" and when they use "next". As an ESL teacher and linguist, I have given it a lot of observation and thought. Here's how it seems to work (it's not pretty).
Sunday is easy. Starting from the next day it goes:
tomorrow
this Tuesday
this Wednesday
this Thursday
this Friday
this or next Saturday
next Sunday
next Monday
About the time you get to Wednesday, things aren't quite so clear. Here's how it seems to go.
Thursday is tomorrow
this Friday
this Saturday
this or next Sunday
next Monday
next Tuesday
There's a psychological barrier at Sunday or Monday, but only if that barrier is almost a week away. If that barrier is close, then the rule changes. See below.
From Friday:
Saturday is tomorrow
this Sunday
this Monday
this Tuesday
this or next Wednesday
next or this Thursday
next Friday
There is no strict rule.
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