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;

So, coming out once is not enough!?!?

At least it doesn't out other publications against their wishes!

Wordmatic

Maybe it's an exhibitionist?

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.

A bloody insemination? OWWWWWW!!!

It says here: Insemination can breed egg-citing outcomes.

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.

Jerry, did you learn that in a SEMENar?

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Many journals come out 4 times a year so you'd think there'd be a word for it.

Quardramensural?

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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I couldn't find a word for 4 times a year

It's quarterly.

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.

Triannual means three times a year. Note that triannual can also mean trienniel. Go figure.

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.