Timeline for is it correct to use 'often a times'?
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| Aug 30, 2015 at 10:05 | comment | added | Peter Shor | There's "oftentimes" (common) and "often a time" (rarer). Maybe you're conflating the two. | |
| Aug 30, 2015 at 9:32 | history | edited | Dog Lover | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 30, 2015 at 8:39 | answer | added | deadrat | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 30, 2015 at 8:23 | comment | added | user66974 | It is not present in Google. Books: books.google.com/ngrams/…. Might be a slang expression or simply a typo. | |
| Aug 30, 2015 at 8:19 | comment | added | Sampark Sharma | Nope. I have a vivid recollection of having read the phrase often a times in a few books. | |
| Aug 30, 2015 at 8:17 | comment | added | user66974 | You probably mean oftentimes. thefreedictionary.com/oftentimes. 'Often a times' is not a used expression. | |
| Aug 30, 2015 at 8:12 | history | asked | Sampark Sharma | CC BY-SA 3.0 |