If you’ve long been confused by the phrase ‘next weekend’, we know your pain.
In fact it was only this week that we chatted as a team about the real meaning (and timings) of ‘next weekend’.
When arranging a catch-up or even a date with the words ‘next weekend’ a game of meaning usually has to play out. Do they mean the weekend coming up in a matter of days (as in the next weekend coming up), or do they mean next weekend (the weekend coming up a week later).
Thankfully two men have come along to save our problems.
Ivan Cash and Jeremy Knight want to dispel the confusion, and introduce a new work – ‘oxt’.
Pronounced ‘oxed’, the new definition for the phrase is cited:
‘While some interpret “next weekend” to mean this coming weekend, others interpret it as the weekend after, hence the use of the awkward, overly wordy, “not this weekend but the weekend after”.
‘Oxt weekend is a new phrase you can use instead of saying “not this weekend but the weekend after”.’
We’re still not sure about this one, but maybe we’ll be proven wrong oxt weekend down the pub?
