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4 comments

1. Don DuBois

   said on 30 May 2007 at 10:12 pm:
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   Hi Laura,

   Love the

   pcitures from Costa Rica, but are the noseeums around
   24 hours a day … or just part of the

   day?

   I remembered talking about the meaning of the word biannual with a friend
   a few

   years ago, and we were surprised to find it means, “twice yearly”!
   (ref.

   http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/biannual ).

   Don’t know how to make sense out of that. I

   also looked it up in the Webser’s Collegiate with the same result.

   Best,
   Don

2. LKL

   said on 31 May 2007 at 5:43 pm:
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   Hmm, maybe that’s a case of it being misused so often that the wrong meaning becomes the

   right one?

   No-see-ums are just active at dawn and dusk.

3. Leslie

   said on 8 June 2007 at 1:46 pm:
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   Nope, not a case of repeated

   improper use. Biannual has always meant semiannual – twice a year. Biennial, however, means

   once every two years. Your link correctly refers to biennial and semiannual, but neglects to

   mention the confusing biannual. In your note above, then, you’re saying the same thing. What

   you meant to say was: “a semiannual reading of this will help more than a biennial one.”

4. Suzanne

   said on 8 June 2007 at 4:08 pm:
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   Yes, but you would never

   confuse bisexual with semi-sexual.