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This tag is for questions related to the English language as used in the United States of America.

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Why do people say "next Tuesday" for the Tuesday falling in the same week? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Which day does “next Tuesday” refer to? How did “next day” come to mean “day of next week”? My employer told me on Monday that something was due "next Tuesday" so I as …
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Is this letter censuring or just being sarcastic?

This is a letter by physicist Richard Feynman to his university's student newspaper. I am a non-native english speaker and I have trouble understanding in what spirit this letter was written them, is …
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