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Feb 28, 2020
This week’s themeAdverbs
This week’s words
somedeal
abaft
natheless
endlong
somewhither
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with Anu Gargsomewhither
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, Marland); Oct 1998.
Wendell V. Harris; Multiculturalism and Cultural Warfare; Philosophy and Literature, suppl. Special Issue: Raymond Carver (Baltimore, Marland); 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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