- Word for three times a year. Is tri-quarterly a real word?
Is "tri-quarterly" a real English word meaning 3 times a year? Are there any other words that mean 3 times a year?
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- etymology - What is the origin of the counting prefixes: uni-, bi- di . . .
22 Many English words use the prefixes uni-, bi- di-, tri-, quad- and so on to mean one, two, three, and four For example: A unicycle has one wheel, a bicycle two, and a tricycle three I presume these prefixes are either of Greek or Latin origin, but from what little I know of these two languages, neither uses these prefixes as their numbers
- If annual means one year, is there any word for two,three, four. . year
From WordWeb: Annual: Occurring or payable every year What is the corresponding single word for occurring every two year, three year, four year etc I understand that it's surely not exhaustively
- What is the proper hyphenation of # and a half year old in the . . .
The other obvious option is to leave the words open: "three and a half year old " This approach avoids what you consider the hyphen plague of "three-and-a-half-year-old," but it also de-emphasizes the unitary aspect of the phrase, which the heavily punctuated form makes clear
- Why there are two different meanings for triweekly?
Google Books has at least one earlier use (also meaning three times a week): "There are, likewise, nine printing-offices in Washington, and two daily papers, with an equal number of tri-weekly ones, and a paper published once a week "
- Why is it three score years and ten almost half the time and not . . .
3 Why is it 'three score years and ten' almost half the time and not always 'three score and ten years'? Note: I edited the question body and title in light of comments and answers pointing me to a Google phrase frequency chart which indicates that the two versions are used about equally often right now
- What does three by and five by mean? - English Language Usage . . .
It teaches the target language using English On a page of vocabulary and phrases, it lists the English terms "three by" and "five by" I can't understand the foreign translation, and there is no context from which to guess the meaning Are these voice procedures for use on a radio? What is the meaning? And is there also "one by", "two by", etc ?
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