Biconfusing Tip of the Day
Biannually and Semiannually both mean twice a year, biennialy mines every two years, and it just gets more confusing after that:
- biannually and semiyearly
- occurring twice a year
- semiannually
- occurring every six months or twice a year
- biennially and biyearly
- occurring every two years
- semimonthly
- occuring twice a month
- bimonthly
- occurring every two months
- occurring twice a month
- semiweekly
- occurring twice a week
- biweekly
- occurring twice a week
- occurring every two weeks
Now comes the fun part!
Labels: grammar
posted by Pete at 1:04 PM
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2 Comments:
Very useful info, indeed. I never really knew what things like that meant, so I vowed never to use them unless I had to. Is something really a shortcut if no one knows what it means? One clue for the "ennial." Flowers that return each year are called "perennial," so maybe "ennial" means "each year." Although that doesn't really work with biennially. Hm.
20 April, 2007 17:41
Its a Latin suffix that means year.
20 April, 2007 20:23
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