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Bookmark or Share- abbreviation for the days (monday, tuesday,..) - WordReference ForumsI have seen Monday thru Sunday as the 2nd most popular week cycle, but Sunday thru Saturday is by far most common in the Midwest, where i am from. I estimate 90% of the time, our work week is Sunday-Saturday. maybe 5% of the time Monday thru Sunday is used. and maybe the other 5% of the time, any other week cycle is used.
- a week or in a week - WordReference Forums1. I swim twice a week. -> I habitually swim on two days every week 2. I swim twice in a week. -> "in a week" = "during the course of one week" "It was quite surprising, both John and David have asked me to go to the swimming pool: I never normally swim and yet now I will swim twice in a week." -> One instance of swimming two times in a week.
- in two weeks/ weeks' or week's time? | WordReference ForumsRe: in two weeks/weeks' time/weeks time Thank you for your answers. Funny, in my book (Handbuch des englischen Sprachgebrauchs - it is mainly written in German) it says with a plural construction you can use it with or without the apostroph (examples from the book):
- Weekend or week-end: hyphen or not? | WordReference ForumsYou can use "week-end" to mean the end of the week (i.e. rather than the two-day period of Saturday and Sunday), just as "year-end" means the end of the year. In a work context, you could write: "I must receive the report by week-end," in which case it probably means by the close of business on Friday.
- word order for time, day and date | WordReference ForumsI've been wondering how to put the time, day and date in the right order. Can anybody help me? I'd like to make an appointment for Friday at 2:00 on Feb. 28. I'd like to make an appointment at 2:00 on Friday Feb. 28. I'd like to make an appointment at 2:00 Friday Feb.28.
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