A fortnight is equivelant to 14 days. It was derived from a term that was used in Old England that literally translated to 14 nights.
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A fortnight lasts for 14 days. It is a term that is rarely used in the English language anymore.
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Secretly, "fortnight" is a code word, a contraction of "fourteen nights". But the latter term is a 3 syllabled mouthful, which, with frequent use, slides into the palatable ease of "fortnight". (Contraction pen...
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2 weeks or any period of 14 days it is a contraction of "fourteen nights" a three sylable mouthful
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ONE of the Capital's most popular galleries is set to close its doors for another three months â€' just a fortnight after it reopens following a
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History Before Hutton You can't touch me, I'm part of the union Choice Gets Going Watching London Rewriting history A good breakfast Crisis weekend television Missing the river Brave New World Do the right thing Five by Five 3 faces of ITV Getting it right 1990 and all that Long fortnight 2001 - 17 = Now XML...
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Online news sections of the The Cincinnati Enquirer and The Kentucky Enquirer ... Tuesday, June 10, 1997 ; Forston's busy fortnight ... I think he's matured a ton as a person and he's matured on the court, even though I think he's a long way away still.
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With a stream of award-winning regional and national journalists attached to it Fortnight has been able to comment freely and without prejudice on politics, arts and culture. As Gerry Adams put it: "A month without Fortnight would be twice as long." ;
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