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Unlocking the mystery of 'ever words' and Latin abbreviations. Juna.
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
The Importance of the Ever Suffix in English
Dictionary.com and the online American Heritage Dictionary don't even list it, although it is there in three other dictionaries I checked. Why ever seems to be more common in books categorized as British English. There's an obsolete nay word that got tacked on to give the word not ever a negative meaning. And perhaps less obviously, never comes from that use of adverb Never - which has been replaced by forever.
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