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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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