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Old 11-02-2015, 11:05 PM   #279
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Originally Posted by Wearever View Post
Thanks I did, but as luck would have it I came across fortnight in " A Question of Honor " a Charles Todd book I was just reading. 2 weeks. I have come across fortnight in British books and for some reason always thought it was just a few days.
Fortnight is short for "fourteen nights", or (as Wearever noted) two weeks. (FYI, in the same vein senight, sennight , or se'night is short for "seven nights", or one week.)

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