Does a word exist in the English language to mean &quot;every EIGHT weeks&quot;, like biweekly for every two weeks, and triweekly for every three weeks, etc.?
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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 or month, or once every two weeks or months?  If this prefix is not used consistently, is there any rationale as to why it isn't?
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Two days had passed since she had last eaten or slept.   Or should it be:     Two days have passed since she last ate or slept.   Or something else? And why? The combinatorial explosion of past simple, past perfect and present perfect is killing me.
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Is there a grammatical rule to compound a set of words such as a single one? e.g.  word1 word2 --> word1word2  or word1-word2? Bye.
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Is there a word for 'four times as much', analogous to once, twice, and thrice?
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Possible Duplicate:          A friend of mine asked me this question, and it caught my curiosity.  Is there an explicit opposite of the word postpone?  As in, do something in advance?  Clearly what I just said is functionally equivalent to the answer I am seeking, but I was wondering if there was a single word that is the antonym.  More context: Bob was supposed to start work in July, but due to a work visa issue, he had to begin in advance.
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Merriam-Webster says about another the following:     being one more in addition to one or more of the same kind   —   However, I come across such sentences as: “I am giving another three books away”, “give me another 2 flowers”. I think it’s fine to say “give me another twenty minutes” as it is a period of time, but I wonder about “another two books/flowers”. Is it grammatically correct? Another thing which seems to be suspicious is that I can’t find such examples in dictionaries.
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Hi I'm looking for a word for someone who is constantly asking for something and keeps wanting updates about it. The closest words I can think of is pushy and, to a lesser extent, annoying. But clearly these words don't directly mean what I intend.
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Our company publishes an internal e-newsletter that we call the &lt;Title&gt; Weekly. We're now going to publish every other week, so the title needs to be changed. The first solution that came to mind was &lt;Title&gt; Biweekly, but a few questions on this site have pointed out that "biweekly" is a troublesome word, and we didn't really like the word anyways.  What is a good word to describe a publication that is now publishing less than it used to? Searching around on this site yielded "fortnightly" as an idea, but that doesn't fly as well across the pond. I just learned about the existence of "hebdomadal", but I doubt that "bihebdomadal" would get approved.  Any ideas? It doesn't even have to be a synonym of biweekly; in fact, it'd probably be better if we went in another direction. The publication is publishing less frequently so the idea of scaling back could be in play, but the new format opens the door for a more focused and relevant publication, because we won't be struggling for content week after week. So, a word like "condensed" could be on the table as well. Or, even a word that's better than "regular" to indicate that while it's not as frequent, it's still a regular publication.
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I need to request leave for one day and for more than one day.  What's the correct way of using the word day?  Which is correct for a single day of leave?        1 day's leave   1 day leave      What about more than one day?        2 day's leave   2 days' leave      Please clarify with explanation.
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I mean adjectives like: ablaze, afloat, alive, ashore, ...   I did a quick Google search and found that they are called a adjectives. But I do remember that I came across a different denomination in a grammar book some time ago, but I have since forgotten that word.   Could anyone help?
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Is there a word in English to describe words that can be spelled more than one way?  For example:   colour and color favourite and favorite   However, this shouldn't be limited to words spelled differently in different dialects, though I'm not sure what other case there would be.
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I seem to recall from my youth, when my vocabulary was many times what it is today, learning a word (started with an 'a' I think) whose meaning was "an old, unused, or archaic word" or something roughly to that effect.  I believe it was an adjective though it might have been a noun. This would be quite fun as an  term.  Does anyone recall such a word, or am I deceiving myself?
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Is there any preposition before "next week"? Is it "I would send you the proposal next Monday", or "...on next Monday"?
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I desire he visit us more often.     This is correct, right?     I hope he visit us more often.     Why is this incorrect? Why should I use “visits” instead?
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This is purely a curiosity, but I'm fascinated by mid-word pluralization, even if the word in question is a compound word.  For example, passersby or standersby.  No others have occurred to me. Can you provide other examples, or a link to a resource that enumerates them?  I'm particularly interested in compounds that do not include spaces or hyphens.
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Some tasks are important but can be pushed off until the next sprint (period in which we add developments to software).  But some tasks are essential and aboslutely must be completed in the current sprint.  Is there a word or expression for these kinds of tasks (can be from other contexts as well)?  Example sentence:     Please classify these tasks as ____________ that must be completed by November.   EDIT: I know that in other languages the word "iron" is used to express the strict nature of the task. But I'm not familiar with a similar English expression.
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I’ve always understood that the phrase two weeks usually turns into two weeks’ when used as a modifier as in   I’m giving my two weeks’ notice.  I get two weeks’ vacation. (“two weeks’ holiday” for Brits)   with an apostrophe on the word weeks’, indicating that the vacation “belongs” to the weeks.   One way to explain this is the phrase “two weeks of vacation” being contracted to “two weeks’ vacation” – the vacation is “of” the weeks; that is, it is possessed by them.  But I’ve seen a lot of people omit the apostrophe in casual writing, and thinking about it, it seems plausible that the noun vacation would be plainly modified by the adjectival phrase two weeks.  But on the other hand, shouldn’t adjectival phrases be hypenated, namely two-weeks vacation?  Yet that seems wrong, too: the hyphenate should be singular, two-week vacation (like two-tone shoes) because .   touches on this (and references a good ) but doesn’t explain why the plural must be possessive in this case.   suggests that two weeks might be adverbial rather than adjectival, and thus resists being used attributively. But that still doesn’t quite explain this particular muddle of pluralization, possession, and attribution.  Given all this, why should “two weeks vacation” be written “two weeks’ vacation” with a possessive apostrophe?