it used to be like that elsewhen
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it may be again elsehow
but you have to ask elsewho
I'm not usually for going against the natural evolution of language, but I'd like to see these words return elsewhy.
It seems that elsewhen, and a lot of other variations - used to be used, but fell out of fashion. There is some discussion here.
Cool, thank you! I find it's a shame these words went out of use, like found out about the words "whence", "whither", "thence" and "thither", I feel using them would rid many sentences of superfluous words. But I'm sure if I did, I'd sound pretentious at best or be misunderstood at worst.
Don’t ask. Just start using it. If others like it and it catches on, eventually it will be put in the OED.
There wasn’t a language conference that ok’d ‘skibidy toilet’ before it could be used.
Start using them, they might regain momentum.
My favourites are overmorrow and yesternight
My daughter used to say, “nextday” for tomorrow, and “nextnextday” for overmorrow.
Oh yeah these are cool!
We do have the word elsewhen, it's just not as commonly used. As for 'someone else', I have nothing.
I found "elsewho" through another comment, it makes sense, I actually hesitated between typing it or "elseone". I chose the latter because you say "someone else" and not "somewho else"; but "who" is closer to "where or "when".