Fortnight is not Old English, it is modern British English and in daily use for probably 100,000,000+ people. I use "every two weeks" when speaking to people who are not British though, and it is likely a better choice here as an international list. Still, it is not an arcane word and it solves this problem entirely :-)
On Thu, 12 Jan 2023 at 22:31, Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmas...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 10:19 PM David Woodhouse <dw...@infradead.org> > wrote: > > > The English word for that is 'fortnightly', FWIW. > > While that is Old English, and still commonly used > in parts of the world and in some formal language > usage, most people just use the words "every two > weeks" rather than asking people to pull out their > OED. > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue >
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