- Why there are two different meanings for triweekly?
1 Why there are two different meanings for “triweekly”? It's almost as though the language evolved rather than being properly designed Is there another word to indicate a period of exactly 3 weeks? Yes, "three-weekly" And for the other meaning (three times a week): "thrice-weekly"
- Whats the Best English word for 6 months in this group: daily, weekly . . .
While one question could be about what does bi- stand for, my question is what better one word is there for 6 months like daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly My guess it there might be one that I don't know of
- meaning - Biweekly, bimonthly, biannual, and bicentennial: dual . . .
What do lengths of time with the "bi" prefix mean"? I have understood bicentennial as once every two hundred years, but biannual as meaning twice a year Do biweekly and bimonthly mean twice a week
- Is there a word that means every four weeks?
The problem with trying to sound clever by coining something from roots and prefixes is that the people who grok quadriweekly or quadweekly quickly and intuitively will also understand it's kinda off, since week is Germanic The best you've got is four-weekly unless you're showing off with tetrahebdomadally, quadriseptimanally, or duodetrigintally
- Weekly, Daily, Hourly - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
"Hourly," "daily," "monthly," "weekly," and "yearly" suggest a consistent approach to creating adverbial forms of time measurements, but the form breaks down both in smaller time units ("secondly," "minutely"—perhaps because of the danger of confusion with other meanings of those words) and in larger ones ("decadely," "centurily
- Are there any words I can use to disambiguate biweekly?
Besides the ambiguity of the words "bi-weekly" or "bi-monthly," I think that they are esthetically ugly and artificial words that detract from the English language
- word choice - What is the collective term for Daily, Weekly . . .
What is the collective term for "Daily", "Weekly", "Monthly" and "Yearly"? Ask Question Asked 9 years, 1 month ago Modified 7 years, 10 months ago
- Term for Every 2 weeks? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Possible Duplicate: Are there any words I can use to disambiguate ldquo;biweekly rdquo;? Is there a term two designate a frequency of "every two weeks", like "weekly" for "every week"
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