SHREVEPORT, La. - As summer approaches, weekend warriors--those who participate in high-intensity physical activity into their weekends are hitting the hiking trails, courts, and parks. "Dynamic ...

Understanding the Context

But "at/on [the] weekend [s]" could refer to a past or future event. Therefore to avoid ambiguity, reference should be made to whether it is a weekend in the past, future or both. Where I live in southern California I often hear weekend referred to as plural eg "on the weekends". Is this proper English and is it commonly heard elsewhere or is it just ignorance unique to my r...

Key Insights

Now, weekend as we now know it, is a U.S. invention. The practice of organising employment in a way that provides for most people not working on both Saturday and Sunday first appeared in the U.S. in early twentieth century, became common in that country in the decades that followed, and then spread to most of the world after the Second World War. Why is weekend so called in the U.S., when it is not the end of the ...

Final Thoughts

which is the right grammatical saying from these, "I will do my work on the weekend", "I do my work in weekends" or "I will do my work at the weekend"? On is slightly vague (possibly deliberately so) and would suggest some time during the weekend, or possibly the whole weekend. For the weekend could mean most of the weekend and possibly the entire weekend, and over the weekend explicitly means the whole weekend β€” in this context. "At the weekend" suggests next weekend to me, and my understanding of "at weekends" suggests every or most weekends. If it is true, if we say "at the weekends" does it imply some specific weekends which refer to specific dates maybe? Or can it simply have the same meaning with "at weekends" depending on the context?