- 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’
- time - Is there any difference between monthly average and average . . .
Suggestions to Authors of the Reports of the United States Geological Survey, Fifth Edition, 1958, page 44, says, "The terms "daily mean" and "mean daily" should not be used indiscriminately, nor should "monthly mean" and "mean monthly," "annual mean" and "mean annual," etc The daily mean discharge for any day is defined as the mean discharge
- 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 –
- Origin of the beatings will continue until morale improves
Part of the daily orders reads as follows: There will be no leave until morale improves The words "no leave until morale improves" have been underlined by the person who sent this excerpt to the Dar[t]mouth Free Press So any attempt to gloss over the suggestion that morale in the services is not the same as it used to be before these strange
- 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
- Word for groups of periods of time - English Language Usage Stack . . .
Period refers to the length of time between occurrences: 1 day, 2 weeks, etc Frequency refers to how often the events occur: once every week (daily), every two months or twice a month (bimonthly - it's ambiguous), etc –
- single word requests - What do we call people who go to the gym . . .
Italians are very body conscious and tend to look after themselves very well, in fact it is true to say that it's quite difficult to find overweight, unattractive, or unfit men or women who attend these almost daily sessions The men, in particular, can get carried away and so the expression palestrato has been coined in the Italian language
- grammaticality - Reminder of, or reminder on? - English Language . . .
I am not a native English speaker, but as a mathematician (well, PhD student in mathematics) I need to write daily in this language Sometimes, I have doubts about the correct formulation of certain sentences, and as I tend to be a perfectionist, this makes me waste a lot of time on research on the web
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