[sf-lug] SF-LUG bimonthly meeting notice

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Mon May 30 22:43:45 PDT 2016


Quoting Bobbie Sellers (bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com):

> >ITYM 'semimonthly', more or less.  Or keep it simple, and say
> >'twice-monthly'.
>     ummm.
> <http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bimonthly>
> 
>     Supports my POV.

I suppose you might be unclear on what sense #1 and sense #2 
of a word mean in a dictionary.

In this case, Merriam-Webster had the sad duty of adding the way you
used it as sense #2 because so many people get it wrong on a daily basis
that it becomes their duty to record that fact -- as they don't tell
people what they _should_ say, just what they do say.







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