Nursery clothes vs everyday clothes

[ailbhe]

Elsenet, someone remarked that her daughter has nursery clothes which are not suitable for everyday use, so she needs new things to wear at weekends.

I'm confused. Weekends are two days long. How is that everyday?

And do kids really do more messy things at nursery than at home with their parents? Linnea's always cleaner after times in creches than after time with me at home, presumably because they can't bath her so painting etc is more restrained.

But everyday meaning "two days a week" bothered me.

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[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

We don't have different clothes for weekends either, never have. (My dad wears work shirts on Saturdays which I think is going a bit far, but 40 years of the habit is probably too long to break now.)

But I am not bothered by 'everyday' meaning 'two days a week' in this case - it's being used as 'ordinary', not 'every day'. So the world divides into 'nursery' and 'ordinary' and that makes some sense to me.

[ailbhe]

I can see how that would happen - falls into the same box as "literally" meaning "figuratively" and people stop thinking about what they're saying.