Bringing to mind our erstwhile Board God from a former forum, Brad Ross-McLeod.The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
erstwhile
SYLLABICATION: erst·while
PRONUNCIATION: ûrst'hwīl', -wīl'
ADVERB: In the past; at a former time; formerly.
ADJECTIVE: Former: our erstwhile companions.
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Erstwhile
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- Great Grand Panjandrum
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Erstwhile
This word shares its ancestry with ere through Old English and Germanic back to Indo-European ayer-:
Regards//Larry
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
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- Grand Panjandrum
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- Great Grand Panjandrum
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For one, there's always the shower, and for two, he didn't say whether that was acting up or some other form of acting.I didn't know you sang and acted.
Brazilian dude
Regards//Larry
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
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