simulated poll

[eub]

If I could post a poll, it would go like this:

Biweekly ((biweek)ly?) streetcleaning is
1) a valuable service provided by the city.
2) a pain in the butt.
3) both of the above.
0) neither of the above.

Comments

[cellio]

Both of the above. I've lived places where they didn't clean the streets, and it got kind of yucky in late fall. On the other hand, it would be nice if they could start a little later in the morning.

Biweekly means every two weeks; twice a week would be semi-weekly, which no one ever actually says because it sounds funky. I don't know if the definition of semi-[time period] specifies equal spacing; it's certainly the common understanding. (So semi-annual means every 6 months, but is it correct to apply the term to "every Sepember and October"?)