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Similar case in point: "bimonthly" means "twice a month." That makes sense.

But the definition for "bi-weekly" does not make sense.

What do you think?

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[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago

I prefer to use "semiweekly" for twice in a week, and so on for other periods.

[-] AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 years ago

Lmao I'd interpret that as every two weeks. Semi meaning "almost", so "semiweekly" would mean almost weekly, hence, every two weeks. I guess you could think "almost" the other way but I feel like semi is usually used in a way that is "quite but not as good", twice a week would be more than once a week so I semi would have to be every two weeks in my mind.

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