Fortnight is not Old English, it is modern British English and in daily use
for probably 100,000,000+ people.
I use "every two weeks" when speaking to people who are not British though,
and it is likely a better choice here as an international list.
Still, it is not an arcane word and it solves thi
On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 10:19 PM David Woodhouse wrote:
> The English word for that is 'fortnightly', FWIW.
While that is Old English, and still commonly used
in parts of the world and in some formal language
usage, most people just use the words "every two
weeks" rather than asking people to pu
On Thu, 2023-01-12 at 14:08 -0800, Jilayne Lovejoy wrote:
> every two weeks was my understanding too, although I don't think
> Miro set up a recurring invite b/c we were also going to try to
> alternate the time of day to accommodate various time zones.
>
> Bi-weekly is ambiguous in English, I'
Fortnightly isn't ambiguous :-)
On Thu, 12 Jan 2023, 22:09 Jilayne Lovejoy, wrote:
> every two weeks was my understanding too, although I don't think Miro set
> up a recurring invite b/c we were also going to try to alternate the time
> of day to accommodate various time zones.
>
> Bi-weekly is
every two weeks was my understanding too, although I don't think Miro
set up a recurring invite b/c we were also going to try to alternate the
time of day to accommodate various time zones.
Bi-weekly is ambiguous in English, I've had this challenge before!
Jilayne
On 1/12/23 10:14 AM, Richard
On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 11:33 AM Miro Hrončok wrote:
> On 11. 01. 23 20:10, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> > This is intended to be bi-weekly.
>
> Every two weeks or twice a week?
>
Since I was at a meeting yesterday where this was discussed I am pretty
sure the intention was every two weeks. Yes, "bi-
