{"id":8733,"date":"2019-12-02T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T09:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/bimonthly\/"},"modified":"2020-05-13T16:53:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T09:53:02","slug":"bimonthly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/bimonthly\/","title":{"rendered":"Bimonthly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;8721&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">Bimonthly &#8211;\u00a0<\/span>Thai lottery draw is operated bimonthly, for sure. But the meaning of \u2018bimonthly\u2019 (also spelled bi-monthly) is not as clear as it looks. This word has a double meaning; it means either \u2018once every two months\u2019 or \u2018twice a month\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The case of \u2018biweekly\u2019 is similar, meaning either \u2018once every two weeks\u2019 or \u2018twice a week\u2019. The word \u2018fortnightly\u2019(once every two weeks) and the American English word \u2018semimonthly\u2019(twice a month) and \u2018semiweekly\u2019(twice a week) help get rid of the confusion, but apart from \u2018fortnightly\u2019 in British English are less popularly used.<\/p>\n<p>While listening or reading, we can do nothing but be careful in guessing the true meaning from the context. For writing or speaking, we can add more words\/phrases to help clarify what exactly is meant.<\/p>\n<p>(In the case of year, \u2018biannual\u2019(twice a year) and \u2018biennial\u2019(every two years) are not confusing, except for their close spelling.)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/blog_\/\">&gt;&gt;&gt; Read more click &lt;&lt;&lt;<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bimonthly &#8211;\u00a0Thai lottery draw is operated bimonthly, for sure. But the meaning of \u2018bimonthly\u2019 (also spelled bi-monthly) is not as clear as it looks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":8720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8733"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9986,"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8733\/revisions\/9986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}