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- 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
- meaning - Biweekly, bimonthly, biannual, and bicentennial: dual . . .
English is horrible: "biweekly" much more commonly means "every two weeks" while "biannually" much more commonly means "twice a year", yet it is somewhat acceptable to swap them It's best to avoid these terms Happily, "semiweekly" and "semiannually" both always mean twice a week year, so by your usage, you should always favor semi- over bi-
- word usage - biweekly, two weeks or twice a week? - English Language . . .
In biweekly the prefix bi- applies to the week rather than to the events that occur, therefore giving the sense of “every two weeks” In the meaning of "occurring two times a week", the term may appear chiefly in British English to be used when the context allows to clearly differentiate (as was shown in the previous answer) between the two
- Why there are two different meanings for triweekly?
In view of the dichotomous meanings of biweekly, triweekly etc all I can suggest is that where there is likely to be confusion that you avoid their use, in favour of once every three weeks etc The OED recommends the use of the terms semi-weekly , semi-monthly , semi-annually to avoid any confusion when twice per is intended
- grammar - How appropriate is the usage of Adjective biweekly when . . .
A biweekly is published only biweekly (The only problem is that biweekly can mean either every two weeks or twice a week The only way to resolve this is to know how often a specific biweekly is published, and this can usually be found out on each edition ) A weekly is published weekly A daily is published daily
- Is there a word that means every four weeks?
Per Google, bifortnightly and bi-fortnightly together have been used about 5000 times on the web, frequently as objects of ridicule rather than as serious terms for "four-week-ly", occasionally as examples of misunderstanding of whether bi is a multiplier or a divider
- prefixes - Biweekly, bimonthly, semi-confused - English Language . . .
Biweekly, according to dictionary com, can mean either "occurring twice weekly," or "occurring once every two weeks " Falling within the same realm of confusion are bimonthly and biannually As of late, it seems that we've begun replacing the bi prefix with semi when the intended meaning is "occurring twice within," while continuing to use the
- Term for Every 2 weeks? [duplicate] - English Language Usage Stack . . .
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"
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