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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.
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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...
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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...
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single word requests - "each day" → "daily"; "every other day" → ...
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 conc...
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adjectives - bi-daily, bidaily or twice-daily? - English Language ...
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 other day".
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word choice - What is the collective term for "Daily", "Weekly ...
What is the collective term for "Daily", "Weekly", "Monthly" and "Yearly"? Ask Question Asked 9 years, 6 months ago Modified 8 years, 3 months ago
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meaning - Is there a word that means near-daily? - English Language ...
I don't know of a word that means "near-daily" or "most days". Besides those terms, consider "almost-daily", "at most daily", and "daily (as needed)". If the task is always performed at the same time of day, you might refer to "the X task (as needed)" where X is, for example, dawn, morning, noon, afternoon, evening, or a specific time. Usually and related words lead to phrasings such as ...
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single word requests - Weekly, Daily, Hourly --- Minutely...? - English ...
"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 ...
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vocabulary - Word to describe "everyday things" - English Language ...
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, getting dressed, ...
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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 ...