everyone English · revision 2011

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 1200}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ˈev.ri.wʌn/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|enm|everichon]],^(RHWU) a compound, [[af|en|every|one]].^(Etymonline)^(SOED 2002)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Every person: about 1200.^(Etymonline)^(RHWU)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The compound has been written both as one word and as two.^(SOED 2002) Although it takes a singular verb, it has long served as the antecedent of a plural pronoun, as in Iris Murdoch's “Everyone has had their adventures”.^(SOED 2002)^(LDOCE 2009)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1200 – ''everichon'', every person.^(Etymonline)^(RHWU)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Pronoun===

+ # Every person; [[everybody]].^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[anyone]]

+ * [[everybody]]

+ * [[everything]]

+ * [[everywhere]]

+ * [[no one]]

+ * [[someone]]

+ * [[every]]

+ * [[one]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Collins notes that ''everyone'' and ''everybody'' are interchangeable, but that ''everyone'' must be kept apart from ''every one'', two words, which refers to each member of a group: ''every one of them''.^(Collins 2023) Longman advises a singular verb (''everyone admires her'') and ''all of us'' rather than ''everyone of us''.^(LDOCE 2009)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}