My Mother, Whenever She Passed Away, She Had Pneumonia
I have a good friend from West Virginia. Before knowing him I had never heard the use of "whenever" in a sentence like "Whenever we used to go to the lake as kids we would eat lots of popsicles." I would say something like "When we used to go to the lake as kids we would eat lots of popsicles." I know now this phenomenon to be called the "punctual whenever" and it seems to be localized in Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, mostly, but Midlands, some of the South, and Appalachia in general. The only other region where this phenomenon is widespread is Northern Ireland.