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

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Thu Nov 1 16:44:32 UTC 2012


On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> In my observation, the two-word (adverbial) spelling will be reliably
> absent from advertising texts

And books, newspapers, letters, e-mails, etc. matter, like unto
_sometime_ and other such collocations that are indistinguishable from
each other in speech.

"Write them all as a single word! The reader will figure it out!"

Well, this is my queue to stop to stop bothering about it.
--
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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