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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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.