Since I can't resist a bit of wordplay, I lifted this from the SFGate website: De Cecco ... edits the Journal of Homosexuality, an academic peer-review journal that comes out eight times per year;
Another wacky SF Gate quote, this time a photo caption: Successful blastoff: The Russian Soyuz TMA-11 space ship, carrying American Peggy Whitson, Malasyan Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor and Russian Yuri Malenchenko, soars over Kazakhstan on its way to inseminate the international space station with new blood.
Not to get off the subject, but eight times a year? I've heard of biannually, and 4 times a year, but 8 times a year? I've just not heard of that. When do the issues come out? September through April?
Also, I couldn't find a word for 4 times a year (quadrennial means every 4 years) or 3 times a year (triennial means every 3 years). Many journals come out 4 times a year so you'd think there'd be a word for it.
The R & D Department is hard at work doing seminal research on the forthcoming uprisings down south. One climactic conclusion has been published already ..... "Compatibility is coming together." Vast differences are being exposed.
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The Royal Statistical Society publishes its newsletter ten times a year, missing out July and August when many members are on holiday. Perhaps readers of the Journal of Homosexuality take longer holidays?
Note: holiday = vacation in US-speak.
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Oh, for heaven's sake, I must have been tired, Arnie, when I said there's no word for 4 times a year. I write a column for a quarterly journal! Sometimes it's best not to get up in the morning.
