Date:  Tue, 6 Jun 1995 10:36:10 -0400

From:  AAllan[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM

Subject: Re: a while/awhile ??



The best explanation, as usual, is to be found in the Merriam-Webster

_Webster's Dictionary of English Usage_.

 The reason this puzzles editors is that the forms are used interchangeably,

despite the prescription that adverbially it should be one word, as a noun

phrase two words. _WDEU_ gives the full story.

 - Allan Metcalf