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  1. Why “daily” and not “dayly”? - English Language & Usage Stack ...

    Apr 16, 2014 · daily (adj.) Old English dæglic (see day). This form is known from compounds: twadæglic “happening once in two days,” þreodæglic “happening once in three days;” the more usual Old …

  2. vocabulary - Word to describe "everyday things" - English Language ...

    Aug 9, 2011 · Is there any one word which can describe everyday things? By this, I mean things we commonly regard as things most people do every day, like taking a shower, brushing your teeth, …

  3. adjectives - bi-daily, bidaily or twice-daily? - English Language ...

    Nov 2, 2016 · Twice-daily is probably the best choice since it is unambiguous and commonly used. Using either bidaily or bi-daily risks the reader getting muddled between "twice a day" and "every …

  4. meaning - Is there a word that means near-daily? - English Language ...

    I don't know of a word that means "near-daily" or "most days". Besides those terms, consider "almost-daily", "at most daily", and "daily (as needed)". If the task is always performed at the same time of …

  5. Are there any words I can use to disambiguate "biweekly"?

    Dec 5, 2011 · 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, …

  6. distributive determiners - "put one drop in both eyes" - English ...

    Apr 1, 2025 · VA Practitioner (1987): one drop in both eyes twice daily Bucci (Glaucoma: Decision Making in Therapy, 1996): 20 were randomly assigned to placebo one drop in both eyes twice a day …

  7. time - What's the Best English word for 6 months in this group: daily ...

    While writing programs, I need to create a drop down for setting periods, like daily, weekly, monthly, etc. Using one year as a time frame. This question is driven by lack of a better word. I've ha...

  8. word choice - Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, once (?) - English ...

    Aug 27, 2017 · I have this list of choices: Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, once The last one "once" is used to indicate thing that occurs only one time. I wanted to keep up with pattern of the first four wo...

  9. meaning - "Biweekly", "bimonthly", "biannual", and "bicentennial": dual ...

    What do lengths of time with the "bi" prefix mean"? I have understood bicentennial as once every two hundred years, but biannual as meaning twice a year. Do biweekly and bimonthly mean twice a week...

  10. single word requests - Weekly, Daily, Hourly --- Minutely...? - English ...

    Sep 16, 2010 · "Hourly," "daily," "monthly," "weekly," and "yearly" suggest a consistent approach to creating adverbial forms of time measurements, but the form breaks down both in smaller time units …