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- Where does the use of why as an interjection come from?
"why" can be compared to an old Latin form qui, an ablative form, meaning how Today "why" is used as a question word to ask the reason or purpose of something
- Why . . . ? vs. Why is it that . . . ? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
11 Why is it that everybody wants to help me whenever I need someone's help? Why does everybody want to help me whenever I need someone's help? Can you please explain to me the difference in meaning between these two questions? I don't see it
- etymology - Philippines vs. Filipino - English Language Usage . . .
Why is Filipino spelled with an F? Philippines is spelled with a Ph Some have said that it's because in Filipino, Philippines starts with F; but if this is so, why did we only change the beginning
- As to why or of why - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Which one is correct and used universally? I don’t owe you an explanation as to why I knocked the glass over I don’t owe you an explanation of why I knocked the glass over Is one used more than
- terminology - Why use BCE CE instead of BC AD? - English Language . . .
Why do people use the latter terminology? For one thing, I find it confusing It doesn't help that BCE is similar to BC But moreover, there is only one letter of difference between the two terms, whereas with BC and AD, the terms are clearly different and I find it easier to distinguish! Were BCE CE established earlier than BC AD?
- etymology - Why lemon for a faulty or defective item? - English . . .
Why is the delicious fruit associated with faulty goods? Etymonline says: perhaps via criminal slang sense of "a person who is a loser, a simpleton," which is perhaps from the notion of someone a sharper can "suck the juice out of " A pool hall hustle was called a lemon game (1908);
- pronouns - Why doesnt its have an apostrophe? - English Language . . .
I know that its is the possessive and it's is the contraction, and know when to use them But why doesn't the possessive have an apostrophe? "The bear's eating a fish " [contraction] "The bear's c
- Why is the ph pronounced like a v in Stephen? Is this the only . . .
The source of Stephen is the Greek name Stephanos This name was borrowed into English long enough ago that the intervocalic [f] sound was voiced to become [v] This is a regular sound change that was also responsible for some other f~v alternations in English, such as loaf~loaves However, in the name Stephen the spelling "ph" remained (or has been restored) due to the influence of the Greek
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