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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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Often we read a story with the word 'awhile' in it. In my experience the English usage of the word is "Rest awhile", that is to rest for a time period. 'Awhile' is an adverb in this deployment.
If I remain in a place for a period I will say "I stayed there for a while" the word 'while' being a noun, preceded by the indefinite article. Often, I see the same sentence in American as "I stayed there for awhile" where the noun now appears to be 'awhile'.
Language does live and vary over time. Has 'awhile' not become some sort of noun in the same manner that 'leverage' has become a verb?
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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