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As a Briton my vocabulary has slowly changed from en-GB to en-US from working with internationals for most of my career.
by comprev 4y ago
As a Briton my vocabulary has slowly changed from en-GB to en-US from working with internationals for most of my career.
- bklaasen 4y agoNo more "every fortnight in future". Instead, it's "biweekly going forward". I do miss the 'old' terms.
- woodson 4y agoEven in a US-only work environment I sometimes use fortnight to avoid the awkward ambiguity of “bi-/semi-weekly”.
- toast0 4y ago"Every other week" or "twice a week" is much more understood, even if it's a bit wordier. Fortnightly is nice if fortnight were a real word, not some made up british thing.
- comprev 4y agoI found my frequent use of double negatives to be problematic and had to train myself to say "I'm good" instead of "Not bad".
- solardev 4y agoWhat's a fortnight?
- comprev 4y agoTwo weeks https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortnight https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortnight