Talk:ev'ry

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This is just a silly spelling sometimes seen on things. Why take out a silent letter and replace it with an apostrophe? Jooge 21:03, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Take a look at the criteria for inclusion. "Not being silly" isn't one of them. --Ptcamn 21:16, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Every used to be a trisyllabic word, and it was therefore at times necessary to replace the second e with an apostrophe for poetic reasons. Past tense verbs formed by suffixing -’d in place of -ed (as used by Shakespeare) were used for the same reasons. Hardly silly. Raifʻhār Doremítzwr 00:49, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

It doesn't say anything about this in the entry. Can you cite uses of this spelling by major poets? RJFJR 12:59, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter (1992) p. 345:

• There's a boy snail for ev'ry girl snail, There's a boy quail for ev'ry girl quail/ There's a boy mouse for ev'ry girl mouse, There's a boy grouse for ev'ry girl grouse

Alan Aldridge, The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics (1991) p. 185:

• Ev'ry night when ev'rybody has fun, here am I sitting all on my own.

Wikipedia, America the Beautiful:

• America! America! God mend thine ev'ry flaw; Confirm thy soul in self control, thy liberty in law!

bd2412 T 16:49, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

I copied this information to the article page. RJFJR 13:10, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

rfvpassed. Andrew massyn 12:23, 18 November 2006 (UTC)