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

    Apr 16, 2014 · 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 …

  2. 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...

  3. Origin of "the beatings will continue until morale improves"

    Jul 1, 2024 · What is the origin of the phrase the beatings will continue until morale improves? There is a Metafilter and a Quora out on it, but they are inconclusive, and the phrase does not appear in the

  4. What's the generic word for weekly/monthly etc. service?

    Aug 22, 2017 · What's the generic word for weekly/monthly etc. service? Ask Question Asked 8 years, 3 months ago Modified 8 years, 3 months ago

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

    Dec 5, 2011 · Besides the ambiguity of the words "bi-weekly" or "bi-monthly," I think that they are esthetically ugly and artificial words that detract from the English language.

  6. Weekly meetings vs weekly meeting - English Language & Usage Stack …

    Aug 4, 2015 · Yes, in this case, you are referring to all the meetings, which happened weekly, so you would say: During my internship, I had weekly meetings where we discussed about the project.

  7. Why can't we use 'halfly' to mean 'once every six months?'

    Apr 26, 2023 · The origin of my curiosity is in this list of recurrence types (daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly...). I work with companies that measure time by the day, week, month and quarter... and …

  8. What is more appropriate: "weekly meet" or "weekly meeting"?

    Apr 18, 2016 · You "have a weekly meeting", meet is not a noun, while meeting is the gerund and is therefore a noun. Moreover, you say "to have something", where something is a noun.

  9. synonyms - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    Jul 3, 2021 · What is a word for a process that repeats at some consistent interval or cadence? For example, We run the user testing _____ every week on Mondays.

  10. prepositions - "In a call" versus "on a call" - English Language ...

    Mar 16, 2011 · Is either "in a call" or "on a call" incorrect usage when referring to someone attending a phone (possibly conference) call? If not, what's appropriate usage for both?