Joe-Casey,Thanks a lot for your comments and excellent explanation of why "in even-numbered weeks" is better than "on even-numbered weeks".
I googled for "in/on odd/even-numbered weeks". Here the somewhat surprising result:
"in even-numbered weeks": 158 hits
"on even-numbered weeks": 321 hits
"in odd-numbered weeks": 648 hits
"on odd-numbered weeks": 226 hits
Please feel free to correct and comment on any interesting English errors I make in my posts. I want to improve.
Over the years I have realized how important it is to be able to express myself clearly, precise and unambiguously in writing.
Sometimes it is absolutely crucial that the reader, when reading what I have written, conceives exactly the same meaning from the text as I.
Joe-Casey wrote:
Preposition usage is a minefield for foreigners, in many languages:
at six o'clock, on Tuesday, in the third week of May!
SURE.
Especially in languages with few cases like English and Norwegian, where prepositions have replaced cases like accusative and dative.
Correct spelling is also pretty important. Here a true picture of a board found on the street in front of a kiosk in downtown Oslo a couple of years ago.
What they wanted write was: "We have pizza in the freezer." (NO: "Vi har pizza i frysern.") [Correct Norwegian: "Vi har pizza i fryseren."]
What the board says is: "We have peed in the freezer." (NO: "Vi har pissa i frysern.")
No real Norwegian words have the letter Z in them. Only imported foreign words.
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