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Athel Cornish-Bowden  wrote:
> I'm wondering how common ambiguity in the word "next" is. My first
> wife, when I was driving and she was giving directions, would say, for
> example, "take the next right", which we would understand differently;
> for me the next right would mean right at the intersection we are just
> coming to. For her it meant the one after it. There was a similar
> ambiguity for weeks. If I say "next week" I mean the week that starts
> tomorrow, Monday 22nd July: for her it would mean the week that starts
> on the 29th.
>
> In case it's relevant, I mention that my ex-wife is from California,
> one of the few native adult Californians that I ever came across when I
> lived in California.
>

I don't think this is exclusive to english. My consensus is that 'next' has
to refer to something else than 'this', but I note it hasn't been adopted
by everyone.

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