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Feb 28, 2020
This week’s theme
Adverbs

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somedeal
abaft
natheless
endlong
somewhither

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with Anu Garg

somewhither

PRONUNCIATION:
(SUM-hwith-uhr)

MEANING:
adverb: To some place; somewhere.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Old English sum (some) + whither (where). Earliest documented use: 1398.

USAGE:
“We cannot after all avoid always sailing somewhither.”
Wendell V. Harris; Multiculturalism and Cultural Warfare; Philosophy and Literature, suppl. Special Issue: Raymond Carver (Baltimore, Maryland); Oct 1998.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak. -Michel De Montaigne, essayist (28 Feb 1533-1592)

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