Talk:ever-watchful

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RFD discussion: March–April 2018

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As above. - -sche (discuss) 19:15, 19 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

It doesn't pass the lemming test, but it's reasonably common, with or without the hyphen, and verifiable on Google Books. DonnanZ (talk) 22:57, 19 March 2018 (UTC)Reply
Delete. Minus the hyphen bit, you could say the same for "like four of the"... Chuck Entz (talk) 03:37, 20 March 2018 (UTC)Reply
I'm not so sure the un-hyphenated form is actually citable: John Cross tried to find citations of it here, but they all actually used a hyphen which Google's OCR was just omitting. - -sche (discuss) 04:31, 20 March 2018 (UTC)Reply
Sorry. I will have another try. John Cross (talk) 06:11, 20 March 2018 (UTC)Reply
I may have been misunderstood, I meant without a hyphen as "ever watchful", everwatchful naturally never entered my mind. Keep this one anyway. DonnanZ (talk) 09:21, 20 March 2018 (UTC)Reply
Keep - everwatchful appears to be a word. John Cross (talk) 00:25, 22 March 2018 (UTC)Reply
Probably in American English, but not British. DonnanZ (talk) 14:39, 22 March 2018 (UTC)Reply
Result: has been created. - -sche (discuss) 18:22, 30 April 2018 (UTC)Reply