What do you understand by "next Friday"?
It's Tuesday, 2 March today and when I say "next Friday" I mean "on the next occurrence of a Friday", meaning Friday 5 March.
But I get caught out all the time when trying to set a reminder, both on my Echo Plus (Amazon/Alexa) and Google Assistant (on my phone). Just now I wanted Google to put an appointment in my diary for Friday 5 March so I said "Make an appointment with * * for one thirty pm next Friday". And Google put the appointment in the diary for 1.30 on Friday 12 March. Foiled again. Have to change it by hand.
Is this some American usage of "next", like "quarter of four", or have I been ignorant of the correct meaning all my life,
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