From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!philabs!sdcsvax!sdchema!jwp Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: Re: Bi- vs. Semi- Usage Article-I.D.: sdchema.368 Posted: Thu Jan 13 11:36:50 1983 Received: Sun Jan 16 03:54:08 1983 References: floyd.1086 lanl-a.205 If "biweekly" were taken to mean "twice a week" because "weekly" is a word and "biweek" isn't, does that mean that, since "chloride" is a word, "bichloride" should mean "contains half a chloride atom" rather than "contains two chloride atoms"? Would "bicycle" therefore mean "twice a cycle"? Would "bifurcate" mean "twice a fork"?