On 2017-03-31, Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote: > > For whatever it's worth, here in Ohio, "next Thursday" would mean the > Thursday that occurs in the next calendar week. "This Thursday" means > the Thursday that occurs (or occurred) in the current calendar week, > though you'd need to use the past tense when saying it today, or people > would get very confused.
Someone once taught me a song about Ohio. It went something like this: Oh why oh why oh why oh, Did I ever leave Ohio. Never forgot that song. > If you want to be clear, just include the numeric date. Your meeting > would be "Thursday, April 6th". 2018. Trouble with you people is you don't get out on some of the other days of the week. > English is hilarious. > > -- "It might be a vision--of a shell, of a wheelbarrow, of a fairy kingdom on the far side of the hedge; or it might be the glory of speed; no one knew." --Mrs. Ramsay, speculating on why her little daughter might be dashing about, in "To the Lighthouse," by Virginia Woolf.
