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  1. Why “daily” and not “dayly”? - English Language & Usage Stack ...

    Apr 16, 2014 · 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 …

  2. single word requests - "each day" → "daily"; "every other day" → ...

    Feb 24, 2013 · Is there an adjective that means "every other day"? I found "bidaily" but it seems to mean "twice a day", not "every second day" (not even both as "biweekly" does). I'd need this word to very …

  3. adjectives - bi-daily, bidaily or twice-daily? - English Language ...

    Nov 2, 2016 · 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 …

  4. Which is grammatically correct? Open or opens?

    Mar 1, 2019 · 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 …

  5. What's the difference between "diary" and "journal"?

    Jun 10, 2012 · 5 A diary is mainly used to write things you would like to remember - daily activities, how the day was spent, what was done, the daily routine and anything that needs to get done. A personal …

  6. Are there any words I can use to disambiguate "biweekly"?

    Dec 5, 2011 · 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, …

  7. time - What's 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...

  8. meaning - "Biweekly", "bimonthly", "biannual", and "bicentennial": dual ...

    What do lengths of time with the "bi" prefix mean"? I have understood bicentennial as once every two hundred years, but biannual as meaning twice a year. Do biweekly and bimonthly mean twice a week...

  9. word choice - Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, once (?) - English ...

    Aug 27, 2017 · 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...

  10. vocabulary - Word to describe "everyday things" - English Language ...

    Aug 9, 2011 · Is there any one word which can describe everyday things? By this, I mean things we commonly regard as things most people do every day, like taking a shower, brushing your teeth, …