- Why “daily” and not “dayly”? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
Checking how adjectives related to time are created, I see: year → yearly month → monthly week → weekly day → daily Why has “day” been derived into “daily” with an ‘i’ instead of “dayly” with a ‘y’
- time - Whats the Best English word for 6 months in this group: daily . . .
Thanks jwpat7, the fact is I'd vote up your answer One word appearing in two different questions don't make it duplicates While one question could be about what does bi- stand for, my question is what better one word is there for 6 months like daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly My guess it there might be one that I don't know of
- 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," "millenniumly"—perhaps because until recently events
- word choice - What is the collective term for Daily, Weekly . . .
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- phrase requests - More professional word for day to day task . . .
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- recurring events - A word for every two days - English Language . . .
In regular conversation, the phrase is simply every other day Technically, however, one could use bidiurnal It appears the word may have been coined by Ursula M Cowgill in her 1965 paper, A bidiurnal cycle in the feeding habit of Perodicticus potto, from which I quote thus (emphases mine):
- What is the meaning of the phrase “The morning constitutional”?
I have understood it to be Cockney Rhyming Slang Constitutional-> Constitutional Right -> Word that rhymes with "right" which means poop To such an extent, if someone said they were going for their"daily constitutional" and went a walk in the woods, I'd assume that they had a preference to poop in the woods –
- 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 - Is there any difference between monthly average and average . . .
Suggestions to Authors of the Reports of the United States Geological Survey, Fifth Edition, 1958, page 44, says, "The terms "daily mean" and "mean daily" should not be used indiscriminately, nor should "monthly mean" and "mean monthly," "annual mean" and "mean annual," etc The daily mean discharge for any day is defined as the mean discharge
- Is there a word which means having a frequency of decades or per . . .
I have a document with the headings: daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, and decadely Google Chrome, Google Docs, and Dictionary com insist that "decadely" is not a word Furthermore, deacadely sounds and looks weird to me Is there a word I am unaware of which captures this meaning?
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