by Jose Mar 15, 2006 at 08:13 PM


Sorry, wrong answer. The dictionary definition of "biannual" allows for

both the "half" and "every two" interpretation.

Then you need a new dictionary. Unlike "flammable" and "inflammable",
the use of "biannual" for "every two years" is incorrect. Perhaps if
enough people persist in mangling the language, it will become accepted
by the general educated populace with that meaning, but until that
happens, it just ain't right.

Jose
(yes, I know of "ain't"'s long history)



Well, the definitions according to the American College Heritage
Dictionary are unambiguous. But, after checking the Rutgers.edu grammar
website (which the AOPA writers really should bookmark, and reference
often), there does seem to exist some confusion:


http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/b.html

Interesting.....