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...not convinced 'fortnight' is actually imperial (as opposed to just old): https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fortnight https://www.merriam-webster.co
by Ylpertnodi 4y ago
...not convinced 'fortnight' is actually imperial (as opposed to just old):
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fortnight https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fortnight
Middle English fourtenight, alteration of fourtene night, from Old English fēowertȳne niht fourteen nights.
(First Known Use of silver lining - 1871, same source)
...and as for etc (Et cetera), may I offer you my contrafibularities.
- KineticLensman 4y agoYes, I wasn't being totally serious. Pro-metric people sometimes jokingly refer to the 'imperial' 3F system by analogy with the SI system and others. I think 'Fortnight' is rapidly falling out of use in British English. I would be much more likely to say 'a couple of weeks'