Similar case in point: “bimonthly” means “twice a month.” That makes sense.

But the definition for “bi-weekly” does not make sense.

What do you think?

    • jadero@lemmy.ca
      2·
      1 year ago

      Language is a wonderful chaos. You’re just on the leading edge of change! :)

      • baconisaveg@lemmy.ca
        2·
        1 year ago

        One of the ‘trivia’ things on the display in our elevator was about how Websters had a listing for 5 years that wasn’t actually a word, ‘dord’. Like come on, now you can’t even trust words in the dictionary?!