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- Is there a word that means every four weeks?
The problem with trying to sound clever by coining something from roots and prefixes is that the people who grok quadriweekly or quadweekly quickly and intuitively will also understand it's kinda off, since week is Germanic The best you've got is four-weekly unless you're showing off with tetrahebdomadally, quadriseptimanally, or duodetrigintally
- 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
- 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
- Use of the word rather - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
One of our teachers wrote the following sentence in his Parent Orientation handout: We will not be learning these subjects daily rather they will be learned weekly as follows: Should there be a c
- 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
- Is there a word which means having a frequency of decades or per . . .
17 I have a document with the headings: daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, and decadely Google Chrome, Google Docs, and Dictionary com insist that "decadely" is not a word Furthermore, deacadely sounds and looks weird to me Is there a word I am unaware of which captures this meaning?
- 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"
- synonyms - One word substitutions for number of days? - English . . .
Words exist to label periods of time - like week which represents 7 days and fortnight which is used for a 14-day period Are there other such words used for certain numbers of consecutive days?
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