- 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
- 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
- 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 ago Modified 7 years, 9 months ago
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I’m looking for a more professional term or phrase to describe “day to day task” or a task that is very common for a particular role of work
- 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
- 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"
- 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
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