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- Why . . . ? vs. Why is it that . . . ? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
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
- Why is c*nt so much more derogatory in the US than the UK?
Why is 'c*nt' so much more derogatory in the US than the UK? Ask Question Asked 14 years, 7 months ago Modified 8 years, 11 months ago
- Why was Spook a slur used to refer to African Americans?
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
- grammaticality - Is it a user or an user? - English Language . . .
From Amerenglish: "An" goes before all words that begin with vowels: An egg With two exceptions: When "u" makes the same sound as the "y" in you, or "o" makes the same sound as "w" in won, then "a" is used: a union a united front a unicorn a used napkin a U S ship a one-legged man So it's "a user"
- punctuation - Why is there a slash within n a? - English Language . . .
jsq29: It provides a justification for why the standard has changed, even if Merriam Webster hasn't caught up Ultimately, language is fluid even though some consider it sacred Thus, slash was once used in place of dot for abbreviations, the letter s was once written as f, just some examples
- meaning - Why do people say over- and underwhelmed but never just . . .
Why do people say "over-" and "underwhelmed" but never just "whelmed"? Ask Question Asked 14 years, 3 months ago Modified 4 years, 4 months ago
- Why is pineapple in English but ananas in all other languages?
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)
- grammaticality - Is it ok to use Why as Why do you ask? - English . . .
Why do you ask (the question)? In the first case, Jane's expression makes "the answer" direct object predicate, in the second it makes "the question" direct object predicate; the subjects, being "I" and "you" respectively
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