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# I was just going to say,

bear in mind that the gay shift prolly won't even have a clue what the word 'fortnight' actually means....
(I helped save b3ta! Ptolemy the man with the silent pea, Sun 29 Jul 2007, 20:05, archived)
# Really?
Is it UK specific?
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Sun 29 Jul 2007, 20:06, archived)
# It is indeed
very much so (as I learned to my cost)
(I helped save b3ta! Ptolemy the man with the silent pea, Sun 29 Jul 2007, 20:07, archived)
# But it's just 14 nights.
A fortnight.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Sun 29 Jul 2007, 20:07, archived)
# I know *sighs*
it makes complete sense to you and me, but not to a nation for whom "football" has to be renamed "soccer" to avoid confusion with games which involve actually handling a ball.
(I helped save b3ta! Ptolemy the man with the silent pea, Sun 29 Jul 2007, 20:10, archived)
# Surely the word existed for all those early immigrants from these fair isles
that went over? I think they do know but are just being silly.
(I helped save b3ta! Jay, Sun 29 Jul 2007, 20:13, archived)
# meh
"very rare" it says here - in my experience a considerable underestimate en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortnight
(I helped save b3ta! Ptolemy the man with the silent pea, Sun 29 Jul 2007, 20:16, archived)
# and here it says they just plain forgot it
www.pbs.org/speak/ahead/change/ruining/

Madness. What do they say instead do you think? Perhaps they have no equally spaced bimonthly events at all.
(I helped save b3ta! Jay, Sun 29 Jul 2007, 20:20, archived)
# ^him
Didn't even get a chance to read it.
(Pavlov'sDog is all out of pavlova, Sun 29 Jul 2007, 20:06, archived)