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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," "millenniumly"—perhaps because until recently events
- word choice - What is the collective term for Daily, Weekly . . .
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- Why there are two different meanings for triweekly?
I suppose it was just that people started using them both ways until each method developed its own purchase But the OED does comment: bi-weekly adj (b) Occurring or appearing twice in a ——; as in (The ambiguous usage is confusing, and might be avoided by the use of semi-; e g semi-monthly, semi-weekly; cf half-yearly adj ) –
- Whats the Best English word for 6 months in this group: daily, weekly . . .
Thanks jwpat7, the fact is I'd vote up your answer One word appearing in two different questions don't make it duplicates 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 . . .
The prefix "bi-" comes from the Latin "bis" meaning "twice" Substituting for "bi-" we have: bi-weekly = twice-weekly; bi-annually = twice annually Time for all of the English gurus to get together and settle this once and for all!
- Are there any words I can use to disambiguate biweekly?
It's a great word 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 I like to keep my Latin and Germanic mixing to a minimum Try "twice weekly," if "fortnightly" doesn't do it for you
- What is more appropriate: weekly meet or weekly meeting?
A meet is when a group of people come together to carry something out, while a meeting is when a group of people come together to discuss something As your event appears to be one of discussion, "weekly meeting" would be more appropriate meet (n d ) Dictionary com Unabridged
- Whats the generic word for weekly monthly etc. service?
There's nothing wrong with using weekly, monthly, daily or using once a [week month day] For example using: To get booked into a daily service We provide daily services Services provided daily Or: To get booked into a service once a week We provide services once a week
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