Oxford comma.
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When saying "Next" in reference to a time "Next" means the soonest occurrence of that. Don't skip one. If today is friday and I say "Next Saturday", that is tomorrow, not 8 days from now.
"Next" would be completely redundant if the intent is to refer to the soonest occurrence, though. You can just say the day of the week by itself--the context of referring to a future event makes the intent 100% clear.
When we do use "next", we're literally just using it as an abbreviation of "next week's", because using it the word literally would be pointless for the reason stated above.
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That my wife HAS to dust off her feet before getting in bed. Dirty bed? Go fudge yourself!
Anyway not anyways. I don’t care what the dictionary says. Anyways sounds backwoods, plural, and the “s” is pointless.
US newspaper headlines.
"Polilitician lies, world ignores, carries on."
I get the idea is to abbreviate to fit as much in, but it hurts my mind every time! There has to be some retention of language!