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- 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
- Word for groups of periods of time - English Language Usage Stack . . .
I am looking for a word which would apply to the groupings of periods of time, for example: Daily, Weekly, Bi-Weekly, Monthly, Annually etc For example, "this task happens daily" where daily is
- 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"
- 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
- 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, 9 months ago
- 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
- 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
- Origin of the beatings will continue until morale improves
What is the origin of the phrase the beatings will continue until morale improves? There is a Metafilter and a Quora out on it, but they are inconclusive, and the phrase does not appear in the
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