baconisaveg@lemmy.catoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.ca•Why does bi-weekly mean "every two weeks?" This has always bothered me because intuitively it should mean "twice a week."
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7 months agobicentennial
Well shit, I stand corrected.
bicentennial
Well shit, I stand corrected.
Bicentennial is also every 50 years.
You can buy ones that just stick to the wall. Honestly, I don’t want my head rubbing against the wall and leaving grease marks while I sleep, or fingerprints. You might not notice them but you definitely will once you move the bed.
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?!