daily (adj.) Old English dæglic (see day). This form is known from compounds: twadæglic “happening once in two days,” þreodæglic “happening once in three days;” the more usual Old English word was dæghwamlic, also dægehwelc. Cognate with German täglich.
Why “daily” and not “dayly”? - English Language & Usage Stack ...
VA Practitioner (1987): one drop in both eyes twice daily Bucci (Glaucoma: Decision Making in Therapy, 1996): 20 were randomly assigned to placebo one drop in both eyes twice a day and 17 were randomly assigned to 0.5% timolol one drop in both eyes twice a day Mittleider-Heil and Skorin (Review of Optometry, 2006):
Twice-daily is probably the best choice since it is unambiguous and commonly used. Using either bidaily or bi-daily risks the reader getting muddled between "twice a day" and "every other day".
"Hourly," "daily," "monthly," "weekly," and "yearly" suggest a consistent approach to creating adverbial forms of time measurements, but the form breaks down both in smaller time units ("secondly," "minutely"—perhaps because of the danger of confusion with other meanings of those words) and in larger ones ("decadely," "centurily ...
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I have this list of choices: Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, once The last one "once" is used to indicate thing that occurs only one time. I wanted to keep up with pattern of the first four wo...