The quirks of the English language are many. Even for those who have it as their only language, it can be truly confusing. I had trouble at school wit
h there, their and they’re, then of course where, wear and we’re all sounding the same but with completely different meanings and spellings. Joy!
I am clearly not the first to pondering the idiosyncrasies of the English Language….. check out the joys of Abbot and Costello’s Whos on First…
So the confusion that has occurred for me is: when is next week? Imagine it is Saturday……….. next Thursday is the first Thursday you come across, then at some point it becomes this Thursday, and next Thursday the one after. And clearly this will at some point become this Thursday – probably once you pass the first Thursday, which will of course have by then have become last Thursday!
Another quirk. Consider ‘next week’. When does it begin and end? Does it become this week once you hit Monday?
