Forever
I recall that this one drove our English teacher to apoplexy. "No such word!", he would scream, with a menacing flourish of his knuckle-rapper (or ruler, as it is sometimes known).I wish I'd had the...
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The 1611 Authorized Version of the Bible seems to prefer the phrase to the word (the search for the word produces no hits, the phrase produces 392 hits). Being "chiefly US" myself, I would have...
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The Shakespeare lookup engine among my bookmarks (an endlessly useful aid to faking literacy) comes up with "forever" in three places:Troilus and Cressida, act III scene 3Pericles, Prince of Tyre, act...
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You have to be careful of modernized spellings, especially when attempting to clobber a schoolmaster. The Oxford Shakespeare at Bartleby has "for ever" rather than "forever" in those three passages,...
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yeah, well. What ever. Both forms sound pretty much the same, anyway, especially (specially?) after the third or fourth whisky, and most particularly when I'm muttering them to myself. How ever...
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Quote:*The OED2, BTW, has a 1670 citation but no 1672.My bad. Misreading of my small print OED. It is indeed 1670, from Eachard.Quote:Mr. ...Read More
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There are some 265,000,000 google hits on "forever" and 17,900,000 on "for ever". If I'd told him that earlier, the young aldiboronti would doubtless have been forever grateful to me. For ever and...
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Like , "whatEVER" in Valley girl , or "what ever do you mean in normal speaking ?
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The AV often uses two words that today would be combined. "Every one" occurs frequently, for example. As for there being no such word as "forever", that is a new one to me. But it is in the same vein...
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I never much cared for wordgeek's persistent use of "noone", even when he started spelling it with a diaresis over the second o.
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It seems to me that these are cases of there being a simple word and a phrase that can be substituted for it, but the rule for deciding when to do which is too complicated to describe (like how to...
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