Re: bi-monthly steps.

[Peter Neilson]

On Fri, 13 Mar 2020 04:01:43 -0400, Michal Politowski <address@hidden> wrote:

> Fortnightly :)
> Such a useful word.

There are 24 semi-months in a year. There are roughly 26 fortnights.

American English seem to allow the adverb semimonthly but generally avoids  
the
British term fortnightly.

There ought to be an unnecessary book English Made Difficult as a  
companion piece to Carl E. Linderholm's book Mathematics Made Difficult.

> On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:55:16 -0400, Christian Hopps wrote:
> > could use semimonth then :)
> >
> > > On Mar 12, 2020, at 2:15 PM, Nick Dokos <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > > "Bi-monthly" is ambiguous: it can mean twice a month or it can mean
> > > once every two months and there is no convincing anybody that their
> > > use of it is wrong :-)
> > >
> > > --
> > > Nick
> > >
> > > "There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache
> > > invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors." -Martin Fowler