Q: "whenever" vs. "when ever"?

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Thu Nov 1 16:04:29 UTC 2012


It's like "every day."

In my observation, the two-word (adverbial) spelling will be reliably
absent from advertising texts (and undergraduate papers, for that matter).

JL

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> A friend asks when ever one should use "whenever" as a single word
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> Or have I answered her question?
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> Joel
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