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- Why “daily” and not “dayly”? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
Checking how adjectives related to time are created, I see: year → yearly month → monthly week → weekly day → daily Why has “day” been derived into “daily” with an ‘i’ instead of “dayly” with a ‘y’
- recurring events - A word for every two days - English Language . . .
In regular conversation, the phrase is simply every other day Technically, however, one could use bidiurnal It appears the word may have been coined by Ursula M Cowgill in her 1965 paper, A bidiurnal cycle in the feeding habit of Perodicticus potto, from which I quote thus (emphases mine):
- phrase requests - More professional word for day to day task . . .
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- word choice - What is the collective term for Daily, Weekly . . .
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- vocabulary - Word to describe everyday things - English Language . . .
usage: " my daily chores" Not to mention that the accepted answer is laconic in that I personally prefer its usage "Jim got so engrossed in watching the soccer match that he forgot the quotidian task of watering the plants "
- 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
- 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," "millenniumly"—perhaps because until recently events
- What is the meaning of the phrase “The morning constitutional”?
I have understood it to be Cockney Rhyming Slang Constitutional-> Constitutional Right -> Word that rhymes with "right" which means poop To such an extent, if someone said they were going for their"daily constitutional" and went a walk in the woods, I'd assume that they had a preference to poop in the woods –
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