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- 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
- 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
- What is the meaning of the phrase “The morning constitutional”?
What exactly is the meaning of the phrase “The morning constitutional”? Is it an early morning walk or the first visit to the bathroom during the day? What is the origin of this phrase? What is th
- 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
- Which is grammatically correct? Open or opens?
The second one is correct In The quest opens up doors the verb opens up agrees in person and number with the subject quest The sentence doesn't require are if both the prepositional phrase of finding methods of expression and the restrictive relative clause that is authentic to oneself refer to the noun quest The meaning of the sentence is that that quest which consists of finding methods
- 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, 2 months ago Modified 7 years, 11 months ago
- adjectives - bi-daily, bidaily or twice-daily? - English Language . . .
8 Twice-daily is probably the best choice since it is unambiguous and commonly used Using either bidaily or bi-daily risks the reader getting muddled between "twice a day" and "every other day" Neither the Oxford or Cambridge online dictionaries list bidaily or bi-daily, possibly for the reason given above
- recurring events - A word for every two days - English Language . . .
Is there an adjective that means "every two days", i e is to a day as biennial is to a year?
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