What does this mean to you and where do you live?

[Thistledew]

"As of next week Mrs X will be coming back for Outdoor Learning and Art sessions for each class... Class 1 will have their session on a Friday morning."

Would this mean to you that:

A) Mrs X will be coming on one specific Friday.
B) Mrs X will come on every Friday henceforth.

And where in the country do you live?

I misinterpreted a message from DS's school and am wondering if I am just a muppet or if this is a dialect issue, as we have very recently moved to a new part of the country (UK).

The addition of ‘a’, as well as the fact that you’re told Mrs X ‘will be coming as of next week’, makes it perfectly clear that this is not on one specific Friday, surely? I’ve lived in lots of different parts of England and Ireland and none would have interpreted that message to mean anything other than a regular Friday session for a Class 1.

B. In South East

Every Friday..County Durham

Option B

Everyone is assuming B is correct - OP hasn't actually said that. It might be A.

And to add further confusion, the message says

"Class 2 will have their session on Thursday".

No "a".

It's definitely dialect here (Norfolk) that if you say "X will come on a Friday", it means that it will be a repeating event. I might be wrong but I don't think I would have heard that in London, where we were living before. I think you would just hear "X will come on Fridays".

I do fully accept that I was wrong and just didn't read carefully enough, but am just interested to hear other views as to whether this is a dialect issue.

B would assume and I’m Scottish.

Every Friday (Grew up in South Wales, no living in southern England)

If it was one specific Friday it wouldn't say "as of next week" but would say "Next week, Mrs X will give art lessons. Class 1 will have their session on Friday 23rd October", I'd have thought.

@Pelleas

Everyone is assuming B is correct - OP hasn't actually said that. It might be A.

She has asked what we would assume from the message.

B Yorkshire

So which was it? A or B?

B, not in the U.K.

B

The two sentences were in different paragraphs and I just re-read the bit about it being "on a Friday" to check which day it was.

I've been all over the country and think that is a normal way to put things.

To me saying Jane has her hair done on a Friday and Jane has her hair done on Friday's are the same thing.

They definitely say "on a Friday" in London.

b - Yorkshire. I don’t think that the issue is dialect as it was a message that you received, it sounds more like a badly worded message.

B. Northern Ireland

Did you think it was A OP?

Yes, I thought it was a one off event as nowhere in the letter did it say "every" Friday.

B was correct.

for each class... Class 1 will have their session on a Friday morning."

The first bit says its recurring and the second point gives the day of the class

@Thistledew

Yes, I thought it was a one off event as nowhere in the letter did it say "every" Friday.

B was correct.

But the ‘As of next week’ makes it plain Mrs X is going to be coming every week from next week on, regardless of the phraseology of the rest of the letter. It would have been clear to me.

B. Totally and utterly B.

Oops sorry I didn’t see your latest update OP

B) south west England

This has got bugger all to do with dialect

The message begins "as of next week" which immediately tells you it's not a one off event.