Talk:Biweekly

This page was proposed for deletion by Sandstein (talk · contribs) on 3 May 2020.

The following references may be useful when improving this article in the future:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/12/02/new-york-mag-the-cruel-double-meaning-of-biweekly.html Daily Beast analysis on biweekly

Does this belong here?

I questioned whether this was actually an appropriate article for wikipedia. However, I decided to create it after seeing in Magazine that there were appropriate articles for weekly, monthly, bimonthly and quarterly. I checked the talk page for bimonthly, which linked to a move discussion here, which firmly decided against deletion, although recommending a vague move. I concluded that it was worth making a parallel article for biweekly, for the sake of symmetry, and so that the content was available if someone decides on a way to incorporate it in magazine or some other article. OneVeryBadMan 12:56, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There are no articles for weekly, monthly, bimonthly nor quarterly.

Weekly has redirected to Week since its creation on 18 August 2006.
Monthly has redirected to Month since its creation on 17 December 2004.
Yearly has redirected to Year since its creation on 6 March 2006 except for about half an hour on 21 November 2006 when it was a stub about some Long Island band.
Quarterly started out on 9 July 2005 as a redirect to List of quarterlies, since 28 March 2006 it has redirected to Magazine.
Bimonthly and Bi-monthly have redirected to Category:Bi-monthly magazines since 4 August 2007 (though such cross-space redirects are somewhat dubious).

The article Magazine currently includes the words weekly, biweekly, monthly, bimonthly and quarterly. None are currently linked. When OneVeryBadMan found the article there were links. However, one will note that the lys were all outside those links as they are in OneVeryBadMan's post above. He added another.

OneVeryBadMan mentions a talk page for Bimonthly. There currently is none. There is a Talk:Bi-monthly which has only ever had one single post by an editor wondering what's going on.

So, why indeed is there an article Biweekly? OneVeryBadMan was right to question whether this was actually an appropriate article for Wikipedia. Simply put, it's not. It belongs on Wiktionary since there is nothing here but a definition ... along with a bunch of pointless ramblings. Wiktionary already has an entry on the word so there's no need to transwiki.

By the same kind of "parallel"-ist arguments of OneVeryBadMan, this article should be a redirect.

JIMp_talk·cont 07:27, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I am redirecting this article to Wiktionary. It is solely an article about the meaning and usage of the word "biweekly", not of any thing or concept called a biweekly. It doesn't make sense to redirect it to "week", since people trying to look up "biweekly" are probably interested in the word, not in what a week is. Mark Foskey (talk) 03:35, 13 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This article should redirect to Wiktionary.205.185.99.7 (talk) 23:54, 5 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Annonymous edit that should be on discussion page

This edit was made on 16:12, 7 February 2007 to the article. It belongs on the talk page so I am moving it here:

I have to raise issue with the term British English. Surely the original English should be English and all other variants are classified as other types. Eg Canadian English or American English. Also "Misused" is the wrong term if Dictionary's offer both definitions. A better explanation should be "Biweekly is a reference to an event that occurs once every two weeks OR TWICE A WEEK" - 167.206.29.162

I agree with you about "British English", and I even feel that it should be extended to indigenous peoples of America: they should be called just "Americans" (not "Native Americans"), and white folks like me should be called "European Americans", however, that is not in common dialect. When you can be clear, why not be? "British English" isn't defamatory, and is unambiguous, at least... 23.24.214.46 (talk) 17:59, 5 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Spelling

This is also spelt bi-weekly. I would like to add this spelling.

Any objections?

Regards,--Coetzeen 17:12, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

two times a week

The article says: "Bi-weekly can also be a reference to an event that occurs twice per week." I am german. So what meaning is more common? --84.137.48.231 (talk) 18:16, 15 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Pronunciation

At the risk of sounding snobbish, the pronunciation on the page, when sounded out, makes one sound like a slack-jawed yokel. Can someone include the proper pronunciation of this word, preferably accent-free. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Billylikeswikis (talk • contribs) 15:30, 8 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Historical meaning

Historically, bi-weekly means once every two weeks. The misuse of bi-weekly to mean twice per week is so common that it has been added to the dictionary as acceptable. Thus, the use must always be clarified, making the word useless. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.221.240.193 (talk) 21:16, 27 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not true, the OED lists this meaning (twice weekly) as having been in existence since at least the 1880s. It is not a "misuse" of the word; both meanings can be supported historically. The use of the word biweekly to mean once every two weeks has not become widespread in British English because it was ambiguous where the word fortnightly was not. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.225.166.194 (talk) 12:25, 21 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Bi-weekly is NOT twice a month

Removed "OR an event that occurs every two weeks" as this, in my opinion, is incorrect. Bi-weekly is twice a week. If you needed to say every two weeks - it would be bi-monthly. Ma11achy (talk) 08:51, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Once a fortnight is not the same as twice a month. Twice a month is 24 times a year. Once a fortnight is a little over 26 times a year. JIMp_talk·cont 08:54, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I thought bi-weekly is every two weeks. Semi-weekly, similar to semi-annually is twice during the period mentioned (week,year,etc). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 167.176.6.8 (talk) 16:41, 15 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently there is regional variation in this. I'm a mid-Atlantic US English speaker, and I've *never* noticed competent, adult, knowledgeable speakers using biweekly to mean twice a week (similarly with bimonthly) until reading this page. In my idiolect, biweekly means every two weeks. Semiweekly means twice a week. It's news to me that there is historical precedent, and some contemporaneous usage, that goes the other way. Here is some relevant discussion at StackExchange. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.239.131.166 (talk) 00:41, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"Every two weeks" is not ambiguous

In reference to the sentence in the article "The usage 'every two weeks' is more common, but both usages are common and may lead to ambiguity." I don't see any ambiguity in using every two weeks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.190.165.188 (talk) 21:08, 7 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]