701 - ‘Biweekly’ or ‘Semiweekly’? ‘Foward' and ‘Forward.’
Grammar Girl: For Writers and Language Lovers.
Mignon Fogarty, Inc.
4.5 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2019
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Today I have a Quick and Dirty Tip about the difference between “biweekly” and “semiweekly,” and I respond to a listener question about why I pronounce “forward” without the R.
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| 0:00.0 | [♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:04.8 | Grammar Girl, here I'm in your infogurty, |
| 0:06.8 | and you can think of me as your friendly guide |
| 0:08.9 | to the English language, writing history, rules, and cool stuff. |
| 0:12.8 | Today, I have a quick and dirty tip |
| 0:14.6 | about the difference between bi-weekly and semi-weekly. |
| 0:18.3 | And I respond to a listener question |
| 0:20.0 | about the way I pronounce the word forward. |
| 0:22.5 | [♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:24.7 | I have some friends who work in New York, |
| 0:27.5 | and a couple of years ago, they received a notice |
| 0:30.0 | that said they were going to be paid bi-weekly from now on. |
| 0:34.2 | The problem was that nobody could tell what bi-weekly meant |
| 0:37.4 | in their human resources department |
| 0:39.2 | reported being inundated with calls from confused employees. |
| 0:44.2 | semi means half. |
| 0:46.2 | You can try to remember that by remembering |
| 0:48.1 | that semi-sweet chocolate is only half sweet. |
| 0:51.2 | And semi-annual sales happen twice a year. |
| 0:54.6 | Bi can mean both two and twice. |
| 0:58.5 | A bicycle has two tires, and the bicentennial |
| 1:01.3 | happens after 200 years. |
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