This week’s theme
Adverbs

This week’s words
somedeal
abaft
natheless
endlong
somewhither

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Tosspot words

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PRONUNCIATION:

(SUM-hwith-uhr)

MEANING:

adverb: To some place; somewhere.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Old English sum (some) + whither (where). Earliest documented use: 1398.

USAGE:

“We cannot after all avoid always sailing somewhither.”
Wendell V. Harris; Multiculturalism and Cultural Warfare; Philosophy and Literature, suppl. Special Issue: Raymond Carver (Baltimore, Maryland); Oct 1998.

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