>All of this information probably does not solve your problem, but it is interesting. :-)

On the contrary. I was building up a publishing periodicity table and in need to code the various entries in programmer's lingua franca (that is, in english) and got stumped with this - had no problems with the portuguese version, so far. It's really great to have a publisher around to solve these misteries.

Thank you, David, and thank all of you gal and guys!


>In the publishing business, biweekly means once every two weeks, just as bimonthly (like CoDe Magazine) means once every two months. When I tell people that we are bimonthly, I also always add (6 issues per year) just in case they don't understand what the word means.
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>In these cases, "bi" means "at an interval of two" (as above and as in bicentennial - once every two centuries). However, in common usage, it has morphed into meaning "twice during", when used in biweekly, resulting in common usage of biweekly as "twice per week" (except in the publishing business).
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>Check out this information for "bi-" in www.dictionary.com:
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>2.a. Occurring at intervals of two: bicentennial.
>2.b.Usage Problem. Occurring twice during: biweekly.
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