next weekend

I have a Polish guest in my house, and she has been asking me about the difference between 'this weekend' and 'next weekend'. Midweek, she would expect 'this weekend' to refer to the coming weekend, and 'next weekend' to the one after. In my opinion, they both refer to the coming weekend, which seems illogical, and if you want to refer to the weekend after the coming weekend, you should say 'the weekend after next'. I suppose this is just another example of English being confusing.

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Simon Rayner
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