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You are undoubtedly the experts I need for this topic! Is there a specific word to describe words like heretofore, nevertheless, thereunto, etc - legalistic adverbs formed by the combination of a series of smaller words?
Thanks!
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Sorry, Isca, welcome, but I'm nonwhatsoever the expert you need on this issue. I know they are out there......I hope you'll get your answer.
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Unnecessary? 
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herefromeverafter?  tja..
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Thanks for the welcome, BranShea! I'm still hoping :-) They are sort of silly words - isn't it funny that they're all used in overly formal legal documents?
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Welcome, Iscah. Keep your computer on, they will come.
(Something akin to "if you build it they will come".)
----please, draw me a sheep----
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I'd call 'em compound adverbs. A perennial question, owing much to the unsystematic orthography that English has been saddled with, is when to use hyphens, spaces, or nothing at all. Why pick on adverbs or conjunctions, while passing over nouns and other parts of speech in silence? Why babysitter instead of baby-sitter, or into instead of in to? Why do not but cannot? And baseball used to be base-ball, but it changed a long while ago. The list is endless.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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And baseball used to be base-ball, but it changed a long while ago. The list is endless. Nevertheless, it started off as base ball. Sobeit.
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Is: I'd like to know too. So if you're patient enough and can find it, please do report back:
http://onelook.com/?w=*&loc=revfp2&clue=meaning+heretofore%2C+nevertheless%2C+thereunto
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once again, the strange obsession with having just one word for *everything. what, exactly, is wrong with jim's excellent suggestion: compound adverbs‽
as jim also suggests, spelling of these (spaced, hyphenated, or joined) is much more of an issue than naming the concept, n'est-ce pas?
-joe (Avoid compound adverbs like heretofore, therefore, and so on; they will make your writing sound brittle and overly formal.) friday
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