The word “elsewhere” conveniently exist to spare us the chore of saying “somewhere else”. Why then do we waste or time saying “someone else” or “some other time”?

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it used to be like that elsewhen

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it may be again elsehow

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but you have to ask elsewho

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I’m not usually for going against the natural evolution of language, but I’d like to see these words return elsewhy.

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