How Much Money Do you Carry Around?

[Aro]

Originally posted by Dis
the real question is who here carries a man purse.

I don’t. I carry just a regular leather wallet…
Though I would like to carry a man purse… Again. I used to do that when I was a hippie, 30, 35 years ago… Now I really need one. You know, cell phone, wallet, a book, my sketch book, pencil, assorted things…

So, in the immortal words of LordShiva: “Man purse is for hippies.”

[Cort Haus]

Pockets, pockets, pockets.

[Solly]

I've got £115 on me now..cos I'm going out after work And not back in till Monday.

[MOBIUS]

~£20 a night?

Isn't that a bit cheap for the likes of you?

Unless you're coming to Cardiff!!!

[Solly]

Originally posted by b etor
man purses

wallets

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Pekka
A visa.

[b etor]

Originally posted by Aro


My daughter has one... For sentimental reasons. She's 23 now...

i'll have mine long after i'm 23.
usually i just stick money in my pockets tho

[SpencerH]

Usually nothing, thats what credit cards are for. If they dont take em I dont need to get what they're selling.

[Straybow]

Originally posted by Dis
actually I thought of biweekly as twice a week. Kind of like biannually. Every 2 weeks isn't too bad.

Biweekly does not mean both once per two weeks and twice per week. Bicentennial doesn't mean for the two-hundredth time in a year, it means the two hundredth year.

Biannual means once every two years, like Congressional elections. Semiannual means twice per year.

Semiweekly means twice per week. Semimonthly means twice per month.

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Straybow
Biweekly does not mean both once per two weeks and twice per week. Bicentennial doesn't mean for the two-hundredth time in a year, it means the two hundredth year.

Biannual means once every two years, like Congressional elections. Semiannual means twice per year.

Semiweekly means twice per week. Semimonthly means twice per month.

Where did that come from?

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Straybow
Biweekly does not mean both once per two weeks and twice per week. Bicentennial doesn't mean for the two-hundredth time in a year, it means the two hundredth year.

Biannual means once every two years, like Congressional elections. Semiannual means twice per year.

Semiweekly means twice per week. Semimonthly means twice per month.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/biweekly

bi·week·ly

–adjective
1. occurring every two weeks.
2. occurring twice a week; semiweekly.
–noun
3. a periodical issued every other week.
–adverb
4. every two weeks.
5. twice a week.


The difference with annual references, is that one ends -ennial , the other -annual. So a distinction is made.

[Provost Harrison]

I meant the post. I couldn't see anything that was being replied to.

And what pub?

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
I meant the post. I couldn't see anything that was being replied to.

A post I made to Dis some time back, saying that biweekly has two meanings.

And what pub?

Per my text, I'll tell you tomorrow when I actually know.

[Straybow]

Originally posted by Dauphin

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/biweekly

bi·week·ly
–adjective
1. occurring every two weeks.
2. occurring twice a week; semiweekly.
–noun
3. a periodical issued every other week.
–adverb
4. every two weeks.
5. twice a week.

The difference with annual references, is that one ends -ennial , the other -annual. So a distinction is made.

Bah. Modern dictionaries are pointless twaddlers. They merely echo the mindless usage of words, not the actual meaning of words.

The difference between -ennial and -annual is just a relic of non-standardized spelling. The former is really more of an adjectival use in which the noun modified is assumed understood. The difference between semi- and bi- is one of meaning.

The same dictionary posits both twice per year and once per two years for biannual. Sorry, can't be both. Usage as "twice per [whatever]" is wrong, and should be subject to fine and/or imprisonment.


Straybow
Lord High Executioner of Linguistic Enforcement.

[Dauphin]

Which is why fortnightly is a far better word to have used. No confusion and you mean what you say.