ev'ry

/ɛvɹi/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.08 in modern English

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"America! America! God mend thine ev’ry flaw; Confirm thy soul in self control, thy liberty in law!"
"There’s a boy snail for ev’ry girl snail, There’s a boy quail for ev’ry girl quail/ There’s a boy mouse for ev’ry girl mouse, There’s a boy grouse for ev’ry girl grouse"
"Ev’ry night when ev’rybody has fun, here am I sitting all on my own."

Every used to be a trisyllabic word, and it was therefore at times necessary to replace the second e with an apostrophe to pronounce the word as two syllables for poetic reasons.

every

Questions

How do you pronounce ev'ry?

The recorded pronunciation is /ɛvɹi/.

What does ev'ry mean?

Contraction of every.

Where does ev'ry come from?

How to pronounce ev'ry

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