- Why “daily” and not “dayly”? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
daily (adj ) Old English dæglic (see day) This form is known from compounds: twadæglic “happening once in two days,” þreodæglic “happening once in three days;” the more usual Old English word was dæghwamlic, also dægehwelc Cognate with German täglich
- vocabulary - Word to describe everyday things - English Language . . .
Is there any one word which can describe everyday things? By this, I mean things we commonly regard as things most people do every day, like taking a shower, brushing your teeth, getting dressed,
- 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
- distributive determiners - put one drop in both eyes - English . . .
VA Practitioner (1987): one drop in both eyes twice daily Bucci (Glaucoma: Decision Making in Therapy, 1996): 20 were randomly assigned to placebo one drop in both eyes twice a day and 17 were randomly assigned to 0 5% timolol one drop in both eyes twice a day Mittleider-Heil and Skorin (Review of Optometry, 2006):
- meaning - Is there a word that means near-daily? - English Language . . .
I don't know of a word that means "near-daily" or "most days" Besides those terms, consider "almost-daily", "at most daily", and "daily (as needed)" If the task is always performed at the same time of day, you might refer to "the X task (as needed)" where X is, for example, dawn, morning, noon, afternoon, evening, or a specific time Usually and related words lead to phrasings such as
- time - Whats the Best English word for 6 months in this group: daily . . .
While writing programs, I need to create a drop down for setting periods, like daily, weekly, monthly, etc Using one year as a time frame This question is driven by lack of a better word I've ha
- word choice - Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, once (?) - English . . .
I have this list of choices: Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, once The last one "once" is used to indicate thing that occurs only one time I wanted to keep up with pattern of the first four wo
- Are there any words I can use to disambiguate biweekly?
Strangely, although bicentennial, bilingual, and bipedal (among many other actual and imagined bi-prefixed words) would never be understood as referring to half- century, language, foot, etc phenomena, biannual (or biennial) or bimonthly or biweekly (and probably bi-daily, if anyone ever tried it out on people) do elicit that interpretation
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