TIL that biweekly means "twice a week" or "once every two weeks" depending on the context
merriam-webster.com/video/how-often-is-biweekly
merriam-webster.comPosted Mar 22, 2017, 3:17 AM UTC
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merriam-webster.comAm I right in thinking that North America doesn't use or understand fortnights very much? With fortnights you don't have to worry about biweekly meaning every two weeks.
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Yes, the book I'm currently reading mentions fortnight all over the place. It was confusing at first because it sounds like the following night when in fact it is 2 week later :o
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It's short for fourteen-night; that's the way to remember it.
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TIL
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One of my favorite book series takes place in another world, but with remnants of ours in it. Their week is 5 days. At one point the main character remarks that a fortnight is one day less than 3 weeks, but he's not sure why.
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It's like those old punishments that were for a year and a day. Apparently, somehow, a year was legally considered exactly 52 weeks (364 days) so a year and a day actually meant 365 days.
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What about bimonthly? That's the one I hear more.
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The link talks about that too! It means both twice a month and once every two months. I've heard it used a lot for salary or payments
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But bi-monthly is 24 times a year whereas fortnightly is over 26 times a year. Pay is almost always the same day of the week, i.e., exactly fortnightly.
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Twice a week is "semi-weekly".
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See, it seems like it should be the opposite. For me, semi connotes less than. A semifinal is not quite a final, a semicircle isn't a full circle. So semiweekly feels like it should be less than weekly, not more.
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So I completely agree with you but come to the other conclusion, like if I have a semiweekly meeting I'm having a meeting twice a week and so it's less days between a weekly meeting, it's less than week. It just has more meetings .
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I guess for me semi means sort of. It's sort of weekly. Accompany that with an "eh" and an unsure hand gesture, and there's no way that doesn't mean every other week at the most.
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Semi-weekly is less--less than a week long.
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Other way around bruv. Semi weekly is every other week. Bi weekly is twice a week. Week-fluid is when you can switch to either whenever you feel like it.
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Nope, sorry. Semi means partial. Half a week or so.
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This was the topic of my girlfriend, now wife, and I'd first fight.
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I have never used biweekly to mean once every two weeks. I just use fortnightly or once a fortnight.
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Why is a unicycle a bike with one wheel but unisex means suitable for both sexes?
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Don't think I've ever heard bi-anything in the UK.
Twice weekly
Weekly
Fortnightly
Monthly
Etc..
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here in the southern US, bi weekly means every 2 weeks. if you get paid biweekly, you get paid every two weeks. its kind of the absolute standard context in these parts. in fact, i dont think twice a week payday is even a thing here.
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Is there "weekly-curious"?
There's weakly curious, like me for most of my day