[ADS-L] "have ever been"

Wed Sep 13 15:33:53 UTC 2006

On Sep 13, 2006, at 7:56 AM, i wrote:

> ... the 'always' sense of "ever" does survive in "forever"...

roger shuy writes to provide some other survivals:

"everloving" (130,000 hits)
"everblooming" (63,500 hits).
  (Even Pogo's expression, "everloving blue-eyed world" gets 571.)
"Ever yours" as a kind of "yours truly" gets 120 million.

arnold

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