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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
Isn't awhile one of those American words, like backseat? If it isn't, it is very common with American writers.
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This is actually a case that illustrates the point that grammar rules follow the language, not the other way around. Here is the note about this from the Random House dictionary:
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Usage note
The adverb awhile is spelled as a single word: After stopping in Hadley awhile, we drove to Deerfield. As the object of a preposition, the noun phrase a while is used, especially in edited writing, but the single-word form is becoming increasingly common: We rested for a while (or awhile ).
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For those that can not accept language drifts with time, this will be a tough point.
