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Wait, so bi-weekly and bi-monthly mean almost the same thing (every 14/15 days)? That's insanity!
And there's also a fortnight.
February jumps for joy!
Feb is so based it can't jump.
Bi-weekly means twice a week, and bi-monthly (Which outside of banking I've never heard anyone ever use) means every 2 weeks.
So if I do something bi-weekly then in a month I've done it eight times. If I do something bi-monthly then in a month I've done it two times.
English is stupid. Even native speakers don't understand it.
Interestingly enough my spell check refuses to even acknowledge that bi-monthly is a valid word. It's fine with bi-weekly though. So it's entirely possible there is actually no such word and it's just been created by the banking industry to get around the fact that for some reason they can't use fortnight.
Nope.
Nope. Neither of those terms means twice per month.