Embarrassingly late in my life, I learned that biweekly meant twice a week rather than once every two weeks.
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I rarely drink beer (or any alcoholic beverage) so I thought that there was a type called a logger. Found out a year or two ago that it’s lager.
Meh… it really does mean once every two weeks, but it’s been used and abused so much that nobody feels comfortable taking a stand on it. But I will. If biweekly means twice weekly, then what’s the right word to express every two weeks? (Not semi-monthly… I mean exactly two weeks). Do the words semiweekly and biweekly mean the same thing? If not, why not?
That was when I realized that I may have been wrong in my assumption. :eek:
And speaking of spelling, I just discovered while doing a Google image search that Amanda Bynes doesn’t have an “r” anywhere in her surname.
I suppose I should inform you that military-grade gas masks provide no protection from chlorine gas. 
They are designed to filter out toxins in liquid particulate form (vapor, basically), but won’t prevent actual gasses from traveling through the filter. That said, there might be a filter that DOES filter out chlorine which I don’t know about, but it’s not a general issue item.
Bimonthly means twice a month, so that’s pretty close to every two weeks. In February it’s precise, even 
I thought bimonthly meant every two months?
The cup thing…I Just learned that today.
I thought every take-out coffee lid I’ve ever had before was faulty. At my new job this morning I said, "Hey, why not just push the tab back into itself a little harder and then…pop! It worked.
I am 24.
Biweekly and bimonthly can mean either twice a week/month OR every 2 weeks/months. Both are correct.
Fortnightly?
You know that page of a newspaper that shortly lists various robberies/arsons/rapes/deaths/murders/odd stuff ?
In french it’s commonly called “Faits divers” (various reprehensible actions). As a kid, I heard it like “Faits d’hiver” (winter actions/facts), and it would take quite some years before the lightbulb moment. I had vaguely wondered why winter, but never dwelled on it.
Chris Tucker wasn’t in Shanghai Noon. He was in Rush Hour. In fact, he hasn’t been in any movie BUT a “Rush Hour” movie in thirteen years.
When I was 27 I learned that donuts are fried, not baked.
I actually looked this one up less than a month ago to verify it myself–just wanted to confirm that it does legitimately mean either, depending on context.
I sued to be a systems analyst for very large payroll databases. Biweekly meant every two weeks in that context because few people get paid exactly twice a week. I thought that there was no good way around this vocabulary problem but I do like the idea of “fortnightly” coming back into vogue once again and that would work.
They ARE?!
Also: Just yesterday I learned that tampons go INTO the woman.
I’m curious what you thought before…
I thought they were just pads that like caught and soaked up the blood. :3
I always figured boys would pass around the instructions from tampon boxes as a kind of easy-come-by proto-porn.
Another example of names changing from male to female. In FWMs heyday I don’t think there were any adult women, born before 1955 or so, named Lindsey or Lindsay.
There was a Lindsay in my brother’s HS class (1974), male of course.