On Friday 31 March 2017 14:04:03 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > To specify the Thursday before the last Thursday, use something like: "the > Thursday before last Thursday". > > To specify the Thursday after the coming Thursday, use something like: "the > Thursday after next Thursday".
Great - all fine in theory. But you try announcing a meeting that way!!! Here in England we debate it, meaning that I and my husband disagree. When I say "next Thursday", I mean the Thursday next week. When he says next Thursday he means the next Thursday to arrive, i.e. this Thursday. We are both English, but I Cockney-born and he Yorkshire. And let us clear up another misunderstanding while we are at it. The other side of the pond you appear to be under a delusion that there is such a thing as British anything, including English. Try telling that to the Welsh, the Irish and the Scots! Lisi