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Poll: Do you use 'fortnight'?
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Poll: Do you use 'fortnight'?
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: Do you?
Yes
22
45.83%
No
26
54.17%
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Diarrhoea
Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Post #1
Do you use 'fortnight'?
Apparently 'fortnight' is local.
Does your country use it?
Diarrhoea
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Post #2
Poll added, I voted yes, natürlich.
alexanderao
Member Since: 1/1/2014
Posts: 43,331
Post #3
No. I only know about it because it is sometimes used in tennis to describe the lengths of Grand Slams. I've never heard someone say it in real life.
Nightingale
Member Since: 8/19/2013
Posts: 7,294
Post #4
No. I've heard it before but forgot what it means.
Haunter
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Member Since: 12/7/2011
Posts: 27,655
Post #5
No, no one uses that anymore.
Kendi
Member Since: 8/19/2013
Posts: 3,228
Post #6
No
conatus
Member Since: 1/1/2014
Posts: 57,339
Post #7
Yes.
A Little Unruly
Member Since: 8/1/2012
Posts: 18,271
Post #8
No, sounds Shakespearean.
Syňth
Member Since: 8/19/2013
Posts: 15,736
Post #9
Yes it's completely normal in Australia.
Auburn
Member Since: 1/16/2011
Posts: 24,638
Post #10
No, Idek what it means
Kim Kardashian
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
Posts: 15,224
Post #11
Yeah since everyone here uses it (it means two weeks).
Bloomers
Member Since: 2/5/2014
Posts: 29,111
Post #12
I voted yes, but that was before I read the question
My country does not use fortnight, but I do to be funny from time to time.
Ascension
Member Since: 5/2/2012
Posts: 15,418
Post #13
No, I'm American. I only know what it means from British literature/sometimes I'll hear it in period movies.
Hey Gurl Hey
Member Since: 3/18/2012
Posts: 15,751
Post #14
Yes I'm a hipster
Benjamin
Member Since: 5/7/2011
Posts: 7,679
Post #15
Yes, how else am I meant to refer to a period of two weeks using only one word?
(Scotland, since it's a poll of how local)
Though ask me again Overmorrow and I might have a different answer, as I did Ereyesterday.
RatedG²
Member Since: 8/3/2010
Posts: 71,871
Post #16
I use it only in a tennis context
Never heard it used outside of it
UFO
Member Since: 9/1/2012
Posts: 25,973
Post #17
No, but I like how it sounds.
Taste of Honey
Member Since: 12/3/2010
Posts: 19,759
Post #18
I read Harry Potter which is the first time I saw it, but we don't use that phrase in the U.S.
LilyAllen
Member Since: 8/17/2013
Posts: 5,639
Post #19
No, I don't think i've ever heard somebody use that casually in a sentence.
6 Apple St
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
Posts: 35,912
Post #20
We do.
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