"WHY IT IS" VS "WHY IS IT" - ENGLISH LANGUAGE & USAGE STACK EXCHANGE
Nov 7, 2013 8 1) Please tell me why is it like that. [grammatically incorrect unless the punctuation is changed. Please tell me: Why is it like that? The question: "Why is [etc.]" is a question form in English: Why is the sky blue? Why is it that children require so much attention? Why is … From bing.com
HOW DID THE WORD "BEAVER" COME TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH VAGINA?
From " Why King George of England May Have to Lose His Beard: How the Game of 'Beaver' Which All England Is Playing Is So Threatening the Proper Reverence for the Throne That Banishment of the Royal Whiskers Seems Imperative," in the Washington [D.C.] Times (October 22, 1922): From bing.com
AS TO WHY OR OF WHY - ENGLISH LANGUAGE & USAGE STACK EXCHANGE
May 8, 2020 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... From bing.com
WHY IS "PINEAPPLE" IN ENGLISH BUT "ANANAS" IN ALL OTHER LANGUAGES?
Nov 7, 2013 The question is: why did the English adapt the name pineapple from Spanish (which originally meant pinecone in English) while most European countries eventually adapted the name ananas, which came from the Tupi word nanas (also meaning pineapple). From bing.com
CAN "WHY" BE A CONJUNCTION? - ENGLISH LANGUAGE & USAGE STACK …
Nov 27, 2018 Why is a just a rather odd wh -word. Its distribution is very limited -- it can only have the word reason as its antecedent, and since it's never the subject it's always deletable. Consequently it behaves strangely, as you and others point out. From bing.com
WHERE DOES THE USE OF "WHY" AS AN INTERJECTION COME FROM?
Mar 18, 2011 "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. From bing.com
WHY WAS "SPOOK" A SLUR USED TO REFER TO AFRICAN AMERICANS?
Jul 29, 2023 I understand that the word spook is a racial slur that rose in usage during WWII; I also know Germans called black gunners Spookwaffe. What I don't understand is why. Spook seems to also mean 'ghos... From bing.com
DO YOU NEED THE “WHY” IN “THAT'S THE REASON WHY”? [DUPLICATE]
Relative why can be freely substituted with that, like any restrictive relative marker. I.e, substituting that for why in the sentences above produces exactly the same pattern of grammaticality and ungrammaticality: the reason that he did it * the cause that he did it * the intention that he did it * the effect that he did it * the thing that ... From bing.com
ORIGIN OF FAG (MEANING A CIGARETTE IN BRITISH ENGLISH)
Dec 1, 2015 This appears to be speculative, and doesn't necessarily explain why this definition fell into common usage to indicate a cigarette. I'm looking for something more concrete indicating what caused it to be used in this context. What is the origin of this meaning of the word? From bing.com
"WHY ...?" VS. "WHY IS IT THAT ... ?" - ENGLISH LANGUAGE & USAGE …
I don't know why, but it seems to me that Bob would sound a bit strange if he said, "Why is it that you have to get going?" in that situation. From bing.com
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