Is insisting upon a distinction between "biannual" and "biennial" rather than using the more clearly different "semiannual" and "biannual" really lowering grammatical standards to please others? It still seems like an artificial and unnecessary similarity to me when we already have two perfectly good words, semiannual and biannual, that cannot be mistaken for each other.
Is insisting upon a distinction between "biannual" and "biennial" rather than using the more clearly different "semiannual" and "biannual" really lowering grammatical standards to please others? It still seems like an artificial and unnecessary similarity to me when we already have two perfectly good words, semiannual and biannual, that cannot be mistaken for each other.
Fred Patten