It's a little unfair of me to say that "the term is used all the time here", it isn't in general conversational contexts. However, the term has a lot of awareness and some usage in the US geek community, in part because of it's tongue-in-cheek usage in the phraes furlongs per fortnight. (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=4pP&q=%22furlongs+per+fortnight%22&btnG=Search)
In general I would guess most Americans would hear usage of the word 'fortnight' in common conversation to be idiosyncratic, British, archaic and/or silly. Assuming they knew the word at all, that is.
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Date: 2007-08-29 04:07 pm (UTC)In general I would guess most Americans would hear usage of the word 'fortnight' in common conversation to be idiosyncratic, British, archaic and/or silly. Assuming they knew the word at all, that is.