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

[Jonathan Lighter]

At least with "alright" they had the decency to spell it different.

JL

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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
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> And books, newspapers, letters, e-mails, etc. matter, like unto
> _sometime_ and other such collocations that are indistinguishable from
> each other in speech.
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> "Write them all as a single word! The reader will figure it out!"
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> Well, this is my queue to stop to stop bothering about it.
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