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When is "next Friday"
Hypothetical question time
Today is Friday – if I spoke to you a couple of days ago and we agreed to meet "next Friday morning" would that be today or a week today?
Cast your vote
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18 Replies
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If I spoke to you wednesday just gone and said "see you next friday", I would be thinking of friday next week.
If I said to you "see you friday / on friday" then I’d be talking about today.
simples!
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It’s a week today, today is ‘this Friday’.
I’ve had to explain that to customers in the past.
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I would have thought you meant next friday as in not this one coming up. I normally throw in the date just to be clear.
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Must just be me then – I turned up at a job at 8.30 am this morning to find the place was locked and there was no-one there. 😕 😳
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All pretty obvious to me, the word next surely only has one meaning. If you’re in a queue at the bank and the cashier says ‘next’ do you let the person behind you go?
ADJECTIVE: next
1.
(of a time) coming immediately after the time of writing or speaking.
"we’ll go to Corfu next year"
synonyms: following, succeeding, to come, upcoming
"we shall turn to this issue in the next chapter"
antonyms: previous, preceding
(of a day of the week) nearest (or the nearest but one) after the present.
"not this Wednesday, next Wednesday"
synonyms: following, succeeding, to come, upcoming
"we shall turn to this issue in the next chapter"
antonyms: previous, preceding
(of an event) occurring directly after the present one in time, without anything of the same kind intervening.
"campaigning for the next election"
synonyms: following, succeeding, to come, upcoming
"we shall turn to this issue in the next chapter"
antonyms: previous, preceding
2.
coming immediately after the present one in order, rank, or space.
"the woman in the next room"
synonyms: following, succeeding, to come, upcoming More
"we shall turn to this issue in the next chapter"
neighbouring, adjacent, adjoining, next-door, bordering, abutting;
contiguous, connected, connecting, attached;
closest, nearest, proximate
"a brick wall separated the garden of the next house from ours"
antonyms: previous, preceding
ADVERB: next
1.
on the first or soonest occasion after the present; immediately afterwards.
"he wondered what would happen next"
synonyms: then, after this/that, following that/this, after, afterwards, after that time, later, at a later time, subsequently, at a subsequent time; More
formal thereafter, thereupon
"people argued about where to go next"
antonyms: before
2.
following in the specified order.
"Jo was the next oldest after Martin"
NOUN: next
1.
the next person or thing.
"the week after next" -
I think the confusion arises because the friday that occurs next week is referred to as next friday, but the friday that occurs this week is called this friday.
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Next Friday is next Friday. 😉
Installation on Friday is this Friday.
Trust me, I’m foreigner. 😉
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Next Friday..to me.. is the Friday after the one coming, this Friday is this Friday coming.
I say cos I’ve had something similar happen before…Friday the 13th or whatever the date is… -
Next year is 2017
Next month is March
Next Week is week 7 (as it is week 6 now)
How can next Friday not be the next Friday?How can next Friday not be in Next week?
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Next Friday is the NEXT one that comes along no matter what week it’s in. 🙂
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Don’t you hate it when someone says take the Next Offramp.
What, this one coming up, or the next one.
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quote Phill Fenton:Must just be me then – I turned up at a job at 8.30 am this morning to find the place was locked and there was no-one there. 😕 😳:lol1: :lol1: :lol1:
Even if today was Monday…
I would say this Friday, being "this weeks" Friday.
Next friday, would be "next weeks" Friday.least you had time to sit in the Sun for a bit Phill. 😉 :lol1:
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Not really Rob. This happened back in February when it was freezing cold. 😕
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hmmmm OK, perhaps time-out at the nearest Starbucks? 😕
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Sooooooo…
If you arrived at the railway station and asked the station master which train to take for Hogwarts, and he told you to take the NEXT train that pulls into the station… Would you wait for the second train or would you take the first????? 😀
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But if the train had already pulled into the station, would it he say "this train"??
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quote David Hammond:But if the train had already pulled into the station, would it he say “this train”??
Yes, of course because he would be referring to the present, not the future.
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quote NeilRoss:Sooooooo…If you arrived at the railway station and asked the station master which train to take for Hogwarts, and he told you to take the NEXT train that pulls into the station… Would you wait for the second train or would you take the first????? 😀
It would be the next train as there is only one that can be next but there are two Fridays one in this week and one in next. So next Friday is the Friday in next week not this week.
Today is Friday (3rd) and a customer says can you fit my sign next Saturday please.
Do they then mean tomorrow as that is the next Saturday (4th) or next Saturday (11th)?
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