2010年9月16日 · "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 …

2015年12月29日 · 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.) –

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2012年2月23日 · Regarding quadweekly and quadriweekly, I like quatriweekly or quatri-weekly better. Quadroon and quadrant, for example, use quadr-as one-fourth, while quatrain uses quatr-as four; but the roots of all of them are closely related to words meaning four.

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.

2011年12月5日 · 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.

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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!

2015年9月10日 · 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 ....

2017年8月22日 · 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.