A new word "oxt"

[Tom Zurinskas]

> I realized recently that my GPS confuses me because it uses "next 
> right/left" where I would say "this right/left".
If someone said to me "Take your next right" I'd take the first right I saw.  The one after that would "second right" or  next to next?How about "Take your penultimate right", meaning the last place you'd ever think you'd turn right, take the one before that.

Tom Zurinskas, Conn 20 yrs, Tenn 3, NJ 33, now FL 12.See how English spelling links to sounds at http://justpaste.it/ayk


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> Poster:       Amy West <medievalist at W-STS.COM>
> Subject:      Re: A new word "oxt"
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> On 7/18/14, 12:00 AM, ADS-L automatic digest system wrote:
> > Date:    Thu, 17 Jul 2014 11:20:31 -0700
> > From:    caitlin o<caitqlin at HOTMAIL.COM>
> > Subject: Re: A new word "oxt"
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> > DanG said: "Funny, I always thought "this Thursday" v "next Thursday" accomplished the same thing."
> > It doesn't in my experience because one can say "next Friday" to refer to the closest coming Friday or to the oxt Friday.  I know people who frequently inter-change "this" and "next" in this context because they're never sure which their audience prefers.  It's annoyed me for a very long time. I have taken to specifying the date, or always using the phrase "not this coming Friday, but the Friday after that".
> > Personally, I am very excited about oxt.
> I realized recently that my GPS confuses me because it uses "next 
> right/left" where I would say "this right/left".
> 
> ---Amy West
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