People generally understand next Friday as the Friday after this, that is, if you are on a Thursday, and someone tells you to meet him next Friday, it doesn't mean the next day, but rather, Friday week, the Friday after. Some pedantics will believe and argue that it is, as you say, the Friday that comes next. That is valid reasoning.

Paul said that he'd have a test the next Friday. Again, I wouldn't expect to see this from a native speaker, because we don't usually use the word the before next Friday. Instead, I'd expect one of these: if the test was on the 13th: Paul said that he'd have a test next Friday. Paul said that he'd have a test on Friday.

Dec 2, 2011 · Next Monday: This phrase is commonly used and means the Monday that follows the current week. For example, if today is Wednesday, "next Monday" refers to the Monday of the following week. On next Monday: This phrase is also acceptable, but it’s more formal and emphasizes the specific day. It’s often used in sentences where you need to ...

If it is a Saturday or Sunday, Friday is five or six days away. It is "this Friday" or "this coming Friday" or "next Friday". If you are at a train station, the next train is the one that comes down the platform after the one that has left. The same holds true for next Friday. It is not the one that has passed: last Friday or this past Friday.

What day is next Tuesday? When I refer to the very next Monday that will occur in the future, I say "next Monday". Some colleagues refer to it as "this Monday", with "next Monday" meaning the second Monday which will occur in the future (I would refer to that as "Monday week", "this Monday" to me would mean the most recent Monday in the past).

Aug 19, 2018 · Whether next means "the very next occurrence" or "the one next week" where "next week" means after the formal ending of the current week. Some vagueness over whether Sunday or Monday is the start of the week. (Honestly, some people see Saturday/Sunday as the bookends of the week, not the final two days).

Sep 10, 2020 · "This coming Friday" is "The Friday which is imminent". That is if today is Wednesday the 9th "This coming Friday" is Friday the 11th. This is to distinguish it from "Next Friday" which is often taken to be the Friday of the next week. "This coming..." can be used with any day of the week and can be used to refer to a day in the next week.

Jan 30, 2015 · This clearly has no definitive answer - usage varies between speakers. To me, "next Tuesday" means (strictly) the next instance of a Tuesday, although I just wouldn't use it on Sunday or Monday (preferring the day after tomorrow/tomorrow or an unqualified "Tuesday", which generally refers to the current week, past or present).

Apr 13, 2017 · In this case, 'next', in reference to any day of the week, is relative to 'this' day of the week. In the context of days of the week, 'this [one]' always precedes the 'next [one]'; in other words, when someone says 'next Saturday', the presumption is 'NOT this Saturday', because if they meant 'THIS Saturday', they should have used the word 'this'.

Sep 6, 2019 · "Next Friday" could sometimes be ambiguous. If you say "Next Friday" on Monday 1st of September, you might mean Friday 5th of September (ie the next Friday), or Friday 12 September (ie Friday in next week) On the other hand "Friday next" can be understood as unambiguously meaning "Friday next week" (Friday 12th September in the example). You ...