- synonyms - One word substitutions for number of days? - English . . .
Leap year is 366 days Quarter is 3 months and one fourth of a year Archaic sennight (sevennight) was just another word for week, as well as hebdomad (more facetious than archaic) Quarantine is 40 days, though limited in its usage Meteorologists may call 5 days a pentad Catholics had octave for 8 days and still have novena for 9
- Two days is or are? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Is if you're treating the two days as a single length of time; are if you're treating them as multiple lengths of time – Lawrence Commented Jun 18, 2017 at 15:32
- Logical meaning of within 30 days compared to in 30 or fewer days . . .
Within 30 days means within any duration of time less than or equal to 30 days (measured from some starting point) The following would all meet the requirement of within 30 days: 1 day, 3 14159265358979 days, 29 days, 29 1 2 days, 29 314159265358979 days Within 30 days or less means exactly the same thing as within 30 days That is, the
- in vs. on for dates - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Dates are reported in English as being in large units like century, decade, era, epoch, period, etc, and also parts of a day -- morning, afternoon, evening; on individual days; and at individual times, plus at night The event occurred in the twentieth century, specifically at 03:43 Greenwich, in the early morning on August tenth, in 1952
- Does the term within 7 days mean include the 7th day?
But people often take today to be the first day of the count, so if on Monday someone says "within 3 days" they are thinking day 1=today, Monday; day 2=Tuesday, day 3=Wednesday There's also the perennial question of whether the last day ends on the multiple of 24 hours from the time when the deadline was given, if it means midnight of that day
- abbreviations - Should days be abbreviated when in the context of . . .
Outside of programming contexts where 2h 3m and 2w 3d might be preferred, I've always thought that 2hr 3min is a more logical consistent abbreviation than 2h 3min, but with your suggestion of 2wk 3d, I'm seeing that choosing 2h 3min over 2hr 3min is just about balancing clarity and conciseness
- Within and in when referring to time - English Language Usage . . .
Within is regarded as specifying an upper limit: within two days means maybe today, maybe tomorrow, but no later than two days from now In is sometimes regarded as more precise: in two days could mean two days from now – particularly with a scheduled event, such as a party That said, there are exceptions where the word in can be more
- Origin and usage of day of - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
There is an expression I have heard used many times in conversational U S English but cannot recall ever seeing in writing: day of as an adverb, omitting the object of the preposition Examples:
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