- 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’
- 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
- 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 –
- 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
- phrase requests - More professional word for day to day task . . .
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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" Neither the Oxford or Cambridge online dictionaries list bidaily or bi-daily, possibly for the reason given above
- 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):
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