Comment by xpe

You seem quite interested in right versus wrong. I wonder if you will be intellectually honest if/when I reveal errors, mistakes, oversimplifications, and so on?

> I looked up the word in a few different dictionaries and the top entry aligns more with "subsequent" in every one.

Even if you had looked at every dictionary, would you claim such a process resolves ambiguity in general? I hope not.

As you know, there are other entries other than the first in a dictionary. Multiple entries means there are multiple usages: there can be ambiguity. Sometimes usage diminishes or eliminates ambiguity, but not always.

> I looked up the word in a few different dictionaries...

You only took a small sample. How can you offer this as definitive evidence? You can't.

In case you didn't check it or overlooked it, here is the first entry from the Apple Dictionary:

> 1 (of a time or season) coming immediately after the time of writing or speaking: we'll go next year | next week's parade.

Anyhow, my argument does not rely on pointing to a dictionary and saying "I'm right" and "you are wrong". I am saying:

1. Reasonable people see ambiguity (in this specific case and in general)

2. No one person is the arbiter of what is ambiguous for others.

3. Claiming there is a definitive process to resolve ambiguity for everyone is naive.