Over time, spelling of certain common two-word phrases has evolved into a single word. For example, someone used to be the two-word phrase some one, which would read awkwardly to modern readers. This is our chance to modernize such phrases.
Note that we use se interactive-replace to perform an interactive search and replace, instead of doing a global, non-interactive search and replace. This is because some phrases caught by the regular expression should not be changed, depending on context. For example, some one in the following snippet from Anton Chekhov’s short fiction should not be corrected:
Note that we use se interactive-replace to perform an interactive search and replace, instead of doing a global, non-interactive search and replace. This is because some phrases caught by the regular expression should not be changed, depending on context. For example, some one in the following snippet from Anton Chekhov’s short fiction should not be corrected:
He wanted to think of some one part of nature as yet untouched...