- 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
- Is there a word that means every four weeks?
Is there a fourth word in this series: weekly, biweekly, triweekly, ? If not, and I had to coin a word, then would "quadweekly", "quadriweekly", or some other word be more etymologically approp
- 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"
- 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"
- Whats the Best English word for 6 months in this group: daily, weekly . . .
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 - 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
- Use of no less than and no fewer than [duplicate]
No less than and no fewer than can be used interchangeably in many cases To native English speakers, "fewer" should refer to a plural number "An hour" is singular, therefore "fewer than an hour" doesn't sound right to a native English speaker You could say "no fewer than 60 minutes" and nobody would be concerned For "an hour" you would need to use "less" instead of fewer I don't think
- Origin of the expression to run roughshod over someone
Niles' Weekly Register, Baltimore, US: "Gracious heaven!-are such things to be, that tifty men may "ride rough shod, over a ruined people — a great and gallant nation, the pride of the world, and hope of posterity ?" Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Edinburgh, UK: " Shall rough-shod ride o-er church and state, Then hey! for DonGiovanni "
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