FORTNIGHT

fortnight, two weeks

(noun) a period of fourteen consecutive days; “most major tennis tournaments last a fortnight”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

fortnight (plural fortnights)

(chiefly, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) A period of 2 weeks.

Source: Wiktionary


Fort"night` (; in U.S. often ; 277), n. Etym: [Contr. fr. fourteen nights, our ancestors reckoning time by nights and winters; so, also, seven nights, sennight, a week.]

Definition: The space of fourteen days; two weeks.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Coffee Trivia

The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.

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