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In the name of sanity, let’s all avoid “biweekly” and “bimonthly”. Just say twice a X to be clear. Pretty funny how the dictionary claims to be largely neutral by only reflecting the cultural ambiguity. I want an f-ing opinionated dictionary that says: avoid this ambiguous word!


If you mix the definitions, biweekly and bimonthly can even be the same timeframe!


Or, since we have a word already, we could use that... Fortnightly. Biweekly needs to mean, specifically, twice a week.


I like that. And we could use halfweekly to mean twice a week. And halfmonthly to mean somewhere between 14 and 15.5 days.




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