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Originally Posted by Froide
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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Haven't run across senight ...
if it's any consolation, Wearever, for the longest time (like a good decade or better), I thought a brace was a group of three, before figuring out it's actually only two.