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by gnicholas 1440 days ago
I so often type "nevermind" instead of "never mind" that I created a shortcut on my computer that replaces the former with the latter. I have met many other people of my generation (early 40s) who also thought it was a single word. I think we were influenced by the popular Nirvana album, which used the single-word spelling.
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If enough people spell something "wrong" it automatically becomes the correct (or rather, standard) spelling, and words can have more than one correct spelling, too.
True! I've checked the dictionary several times, and we've apparently not hit the tipping point yet.
Clearly you needed to be born a little earlier so you could instead have been influenced by the proper diction of Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols.
Ah of course you meant in a word processor...

    $ never mind
    -bash: never: command not found
Thought I was about to learn about a new utility for a moment.
Welp, I also just learned it's not a single word.