Let’s imagine it’s currently Wednesday the 1st. Does “next Saturday” mean Saturday the 4th (the next Saturday to occur) or Saturday the 11th (the Saturday of next week)?

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    6 months ago

    It’s the same with “bi-weekly”. Does that mean twice every week, or once every 2 weeks?

    There’s a bunch of ambiguous stuff in the English language. The only real solution is just avoid ambiguity in the first place by not using the phrase