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cody
10-07-1999, 04:14 PM
We have annual for every year, biennial for every two years. What is the word for every ten years?
Frankie
10-07-1999, 04:38 PM
how's this for a guess?

Decannual??
Deciannual??
Decaannual??
pluto
10-07-1999, 04:52 PM
decennial


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"If you had manifested fatigue upon noticing that you had been an ass, that would have been logical, that would have been rational; whereas it seems to me that to manifest surprise was to be again an ass."
Mark Twain
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
pluto
10-07-1999, 04:59 PM
Similarly, duodecennial for 12 year and sesquicentennial for 150 year celebrations.

And sesquipedalian, literally 'foot-and-a-half-long' for many syllabled words or speech.

Finally, Susquehanna is a river flowing from central New York to Chesapeake Bay.


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"If you had manifested fatigue upon noticing that you had been an ass, that would have been logical, that would have been rational; whereas it seems to me that to manifest surprise was to be again an ass."
Mark Twain
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
WallyM7
10-07-1999, 05:04 PM
Susquehanna was also the name of a hat manufacturing company in an old Abbot and Costello routine.

I always remember the important stuff.

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pluto
10-07-1999, 05:04 PM
Positively my last post here -- see the current thread about secondary, tertiary, etc.

http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/002900.html

With the -ennial ending most of the words are the same: vicennial = 20 years, etc.



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"If you had manifested fatigue upon noticing that you had been an ass, that would have been logical, that would have been rational; whereas it seems to me that to manifest surprise was to be again an ass."
Mark Twain
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
BobT
10-07-1999, 07:13 PM
The U.S. Government takes a decennial census.

You can look up Supreme Court decisions (the old-fashioned way) in West's Decennial Digests.