"Hourly," "daily," "monthly," "weekly," and "yearly" suggest a consistent approach to creating adverbial forms of time measurements, but the form breaks down both in smaller time units ("secondly," "minutely"—perhaps because of the danger of confusion with other meanings of those words) and in larger ones ("decadely," "centurily ... single word requests - Weekly, Daily, Hourly --- Minutely...? - English ...

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What do lengths of time with the "bi" prefix mean"? I have understood bicentennial as once every two hundred years, but biannual as meaning twice a year. Do biweekly and bimonthly mean twice a week... What is the collective term for "Daily", "Weekly", "Monthly" and "Yearly"?

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Ask Question Asked 9 years, 10 months ago Modified 8 years, 7 months ago word choice - What is the collective term for "Daily", "Weekly ... Besides the ambiguity of the words "bi-weekly" or "bi-monthly," I think that they are esthetically ugly and artificial words that detract from the English language. What's the generic word for weekly/monthly etc. service? Ask Question Asked 8 years, 7 months ago Modified 8 years, 7 months ago I have this list of choices: Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, once The last one "once" is used to indicate thing that occurs only one time.

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I wanted to keep up with pattern of the first four wo...