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"?