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Approved consolidations
ing the possessive 's has good authority, but it is of doubtful propriety and is much oftener disregarded, as in birdseye, jewsharp, ratsbane, beeswax, and townspeople. When there is reasonable doubt as to their propriety, it will be safer to omit the apostrophe and hyphen and to consolidate.
APPROVED CONSOLIDATIONS
- anybody
- anything
- anywhere
- cannot
- evermore
- everybody
- everything
- everywhere
- forever
- forevermore
- nobody
- nothing
- nowhere
- something
- somewhere
Any one and every one should be kept separate.
Meantime, meanwhile, maybe, anywise, nowise, anyway, awhile, when used as adverbs should be consolidated, but the phrases, after a while, by and by, it may be, should be made separate words.
- bystander
- byways
- churchwarden
- courtyard
- earthenware
- eyebrow
- eyelash
- eyewitness
- facsimile
- fireproof
- freeholder
- halfway
- heartache
- highroad
- highway
- knickknack
- landowner
- lawgiver
- lookout
- newcomer
- nowadays
- roughhew
- smallpox
- snowdrop
- stockbroker
- taxpayer
- teardrop
- thoroughgoing
- trademark
- Zionward
