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I so often type "nevermind" instead of "never mind" that I created a shortcut on my computer that replaces the former with the latter. I have met many other peo
by gnicholas 4y ago
I so often type "nevermind" instead of "never mind" that I created a shortcut on my computer that replaces the former with the latter. I have met many other people of my generation (early 40s) who also thought it was a single word. I think we were influenced by the popular Nirvana album, which used the single-word spelling.
- zerocrates 4y agoClearly you needed to be born a little earlier so you could instead have been influenced by the proper diction of Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols.
- johncs 4y agoAh of course you meant in a word processor... $ never mind -bash: never: command not found Thought I was about to learn about a new utility for a moment.
- Kaze404 4y agoWelp, I also just learned it's not a single word.
- Beltalowda 4y agoIf enough people spell something "wrong" it automatically becomes the correct (or rather, standard) spelling, and words can have more than one correct spelling, too.
- gnicholas 4y agoTrue! I've checked the dictionary several times, and we've apparently not hit the tipping point yet.