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Originally Posted by RedHot25
Edit to add: its the same thing when you are driving. When you say "take the next right"....to me that is literally the right coming up (i.e. the literal next one). You don't say "take the next right" and expect the person to wait until the 2nd right.
Again, thoguh, that's just me....
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Right. But we've said that already. In the context of days of the week, next means the 2nd one coming up. I'm not aware of another context where we use next to really mean "second next." But for days of the week; we do.