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where'er

American  
[wair-air, hwair-] / wɛərˈɛər, ʰwɛər- /

conjunction

Literary.
  1. contraction of wherever.


where'er British  
/ wɛərˈɛə /

adverb

  1. a poetic contraction of wherever

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Let me go where'er I will I hear a sky-born music still.

From Time Magazine Archive

Let me go where'er I will I hear a sky-born music still.

From Time Magazine Archive

Today's American, let him go where'er he will, hears the sound of music still�hardly celestial, but often sky-born.

From Time Magazine Archive

We have no more The world to choose from, who, where'er we turn, Tread through old thoughts and fair.

From The Epic of Hades In Three Books by Morris, Lewis, Sir

XVI "Let us divide among us the huntsmen and the hounds, Then each, where'er he pleases, beat all these woody bounds, And who excels his comrades, shall thanks have from the rest."

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown