this weekend

[Bethany K. Dumas]

On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Michael Israel wrote:

>> My boss and I were having an argument over the meaning of "this/next weekend."
>> It was the middle of the week, and I referred to "next weekend" meaning the one in couple days.
>> He understood me to mean the one over a week away and then insisted that I mispoke.
>> I said that there are regional understandings of this/next weekend and
>> that we just used the phrases differently.  He thought I was crazy.

I wish I had a nickel for every time I have missed a function because of
the variation in usage with this and next.

Bethany