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I keep hearing people use the word biweekly for two seperate meanings

Some people use it to mean twice a week and some mean every 2 weeks

I googled it and I get both answers.

Am I going mad?
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Original post by Little pecker
Some people use it to mean twice a week and some mean every 2 weeks

I googled it and I get both answers.

Am I going mad?

Quite possibly
Original post by harrysbar
Quite possibly

I second this.
MS teams bro
I will never use biweekly to mean “every two weeks” - it’s “fortnight” all the way.
Biweekly is once every two weeks.

It would be less confusing if people just said fortnightly.
This thread just confusing me more, how do I delete it
It means both twice a week or once every two weeks.
Original post by Mesopotamian.
I will never use biweekly to mean “every two weeks” - it’s “fortnight” all the way.


i only find out recently that in amercia they dont know what fortnight mean lol
I signed up for a payment last year for something, and they said it was biweekly. I had to query it as well, because as far as I'm concerned, "every two weeks" is fortnightly in the UK.

They clarified that they did indeed mean "every two weeks", despite being British.

Frankly I find it stupid.
Original post by Wise Goldie
i only find out recently that in amercia they dont know what fortnight mean lol

Well you’ve just taught me something new :lol:
Original post by Mesopotamian.
Well you’ve just taught me something new :lol:

first time anyone learn something from me on tsr lol:colondollar:
Original post by SpaceLover29
It means both twice a week or once every two weeks.

What’s the point of the word then if it has two meanings for a specified time period rofl.

Imagine someone says lets meet bi weekly and you are wondering whether to put a meeting every two weeks or twice a week.
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Original post by Little pecker
What’s the point of the word then if it has two meanings for a specified time period rofl.

Imagine someone says lets meet bi weekly and you are wondering whether to put a meeting every two weeks or twice a week.

Wouldn’t you say Eh? Once a fortnight or twice a week which is it?
Original post by harrysbar
Wouldn’t you say Eh? Once a fortnight or twice a week which is it?

I’m slow I can’t think quick enough on the spot
Original post by Little pecker
I’m slow I can’t think quick enough on the spot

If the meetings are dull assume they mean once a fortnight
Original post by Little pecker
Some people use it to mean twice a week and some mean every 2 weeks

The latter are, indeed, correct. Whereas the former would presumably consider Scott of the Antarctic to be the first known case of 'unipolar depression'.
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words no longer have objective meaning, yet more liberal left nonsense &c. &c.
I've always known and used bi-weekly as meaning every two weeks as I got used to get paid bi-weekly and as much as I wished I got paid twice a week I didn't. If someone said to me something happens bi-weekly and meant twice a week I would be so confused
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The Venice Biennial Arts Exhibition is held every 2 years, not twice a year...:confused:

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