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Also in Arabic, by adding the common dual suffix to the word for "week", أسبوع, the form أسبوعين (usbu′ayn), meaning "two weeks", is formed. Slavic languages: in Czech the terms čtrnáctidenní and dvoutýdenní have the same meaning as "fortnight". [6] In Ukrainian, the term два тижні is used in relation to "biweekly ...
Similarly, a biweekly newspaper is published once every two weeks. Weekly newspapers tend to have smaller circulations than daily newspapers, and often cover smaller territories, such as one or more smaller towns, a rural county, or a few neighborhoods in a large city. Frequently, weeklies cover local news and engage in community journalism.
Note: If two people earn the same annual salary but one is paid biweekly and the other twice per month, the one who is paid biweekly receives less per check because there are two more checks per year.
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When you make biweekly mortgage payments, you pay your loan every two weeks rather than once a month. This translates to 26 half-payments, or the equivalent of 13 full monthly payments over 12 months.
Historically, bi-weekly means once every two weeks. The misuse of bi-weekly to mean twice per week is so common that it has been added to the dictionary as acceptable. Thus, the use must always be clarified, making the word useless. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.221.240.193 21:16, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
Some borrowers schedule a half-mortgage payment every two weeks, also known as biweekly payments. Since there are 26 two-week periods in a year, that’s effectively one extra whole mortgage ...
For academic journals published every two weeks (26 times per year). Not to be confused with Category:Semi-monthly journals, which are published twice per month (24 times per year). See also Category:Fortnightly magazines