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1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jun-2023 00:40:22 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   Once per semi-annuus or semi once-per-annuus? Halfyear-ly or half-yearly?

   Just get off the Latin high horse and say twice yearly or once every two years to avoid any misunderstanding. 🤣

   "biennial" is supposedly unambiguous for once every two years but your readers won't all know that anyway.

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   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jun-2023 00:54:57 EDT lnxw48a1

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      @clacke I know that semiannual is once every half year, so if I think of that, then I can figure out that biennial is once every two years. But I agree. There should be no need for such gymnastics.
      1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jun-2023 01:08:05 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

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         @LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} What about biannual? Consensus seems to be that at this point it means both.

         And my uneducated guess is that "biannual" is the form used most of the three. 😃

         1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jun-2023 14:37:30 EDT lnxw48a1

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            @clacke I've honestly never seen 'biannual' except in situations where it was clear they meant to say / write 'biennial'. I do not think it is commonly used.
            
            But I can agree that it could be used for both meanings.
            1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 01:35:22 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

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               @LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} Now that I've been properly corrected and educated maybe I'll try "semiannual" (every half year) and "biennial" (every two years[0]) for a while and see how it goes. =)

               [0] as nobody thinks "millennial" is a thousand times in a year, maybe it works