[Proposal] e’er → ever

[zhonglish]

This is a proposal to retire the word e\’er in favor of ever.

Contraction family. \”E\’er since\” is just \”ever since\” missing a letter.

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[willpets]

E’er, ne’er, o’er — these aren’t words, they’re metrical cheats for poets who couldn’t make the line scan. Poetry doesn’t need special spellings to work.

Ever. Never. Over. Done.

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