- 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 - Is there any difference between monthly average and average . . .
The daily mean discharge for any day is defined as the mean discharge for that one day; the mean daily discharge for any one day, October 10, for instance, is the arithmetic mean of the discharge on all October 10's of record, or during a specific period of years
- word choice - Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, once (?) - English . . .
I have this list of choices: Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, once The last one "once" is used to indicate thing that occurs only one time I wanted to keep up with pattern of the first four wo
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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