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Headed for Florida
Headed for our once every two years (is biennial twice a year or once every two years?) family reunion at Disney World. Years and years ago, when we first started this tradition, Disney World was deserted on Thanksgiving week - no one wanted to be away from their families. Now, its a total zoo and about the busiest week of the year. Though I am a sucker for tradition, I am going to petition the family for a date change before the next one.
Every time I go to Disney World, I think of this exchange from National Lampoon's Thats Not Funny, Thats Sick:
(fake) Mr. Rodgers: "would you like to go to the magic kingdon?"
Stoned-out Bassist (Bill Murray): "no thanks man ... I gotta drive."
Posted on November 18, 2004 at 09:36 PM | Permalink
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Biennial means "occuring once every two years" (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=define%3Abiennial&btnG=Search ), Biannual means "occuring twice a year" (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=define%3Abiannual&btnG=Search )(although semiannual is less confusing).
Posted by: Max Lybbert | Nov 19, 2004 6:23:36 AM
May I suggest that you join us there the week after Thanksgiving? The quietest week of the year, but still plenty of bustle.
Posted by: Bill | Nov 19, 2004 11:59:43 AM
Thanks Max, I thought that was the case, but I always get it confused. Kind of like bi-weekly and fortnightly.
Bill, I have made exactly that proposal to my family.
Posted by: Coyote | Nov 20, 2004 8:57:03 PM
I have about a million words I can never keep straight -- such as psychologist and psychiatrist. I'm sure somebody out there can tell me the difference without having to first check a dictionary, but I'm also sure I could find a couple of words he has trouble with. If I could figure out why different people have trouble with different classes of words, perhaps I could write a paper about it.
Then again, such a paper wouldn't have any real social value. Oh well.
Posted by: Max Lybbert | Nov 22, 2004 8:13:10 AM
Then again, "biennial" is more likely to cause confusion among your readers. Perhaps I am too logically-minded to have noticed the sneaky way you got around that confusion by pretending to be confused yourself, and spelling things out.
Oh well.
Posted by: Max Lybbert | Nov 22, 2004 8:14:46 AM
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Posted by: distant | Jun 2, 2005 7:21:38 AM
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