Dutch doesn't have a word for 2 weeks, but I'm pretty sure we were taught it in school.
I remember that the French expression is "une quinzaine (de jours)" which is "a fifteencount (of days)" (where I have to invent the word fifteencount because English copied only the word for a twelvecount (douze + aine = douzaine -> dozen) without taking the generalisation) even if it is about a period of 14 days.
See also microfortnight (http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/M/microfortnight.html).
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Date: 2007-08-29 06:46 pm (UTC)I remember that the French expression is "une quinzaine (de jours)" which is "a fifteencount (of days)" (where I have to invent the word fifteencount because English copied only the word for a twelvecount (douze + aine = douzaine -> dozen) without taking the generalisation) even if it is about a period of 14 days.
See also microfortnight (http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/M/microfortnight.html).