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

[Laurence Horn]

On Nov 1, 2012, at 12:55 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

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

Although that was only because they (whoever they were) had "already" as a model.

LH
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> 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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