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The word whenever gets used a little differently in some dialects of English—here's how!

🔎 Further Reading

The mother tongue: English and how it got that way (Bill Bryson)
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Speaking American: A history of English in the United States (Richard W. Bailey)
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📚 Sources
Johnstone, Barbara, Daniel Baumgardt, Maeve Eberhardt, & Scott Kiesling. 2015. Pittsburgh speech and Pittsburghese (Dialects of English 11). De Gruyter Mouton.
Montgomery, Michael B. & John M. Kirk. 2001. “My mother, whenever she passed away, she had pneumonia”: The history and functions of whenever. Journal of English Linguistics 29(3): 234–249. DOI: 10.1177/00754240122005350.

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