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- 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
- orthography - Why are names that begin with Mc first in order over . . .
Why is it that in lists of people’s names, surnames beginning with Mc are listed before surnames beginning with Ma? For example, if a book had a bibliography listing its references, we would see t
- 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?
- 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)
- etymology - Why were slum kids called “urchins”? - English Language . . .
Why were slum kids called “urchins”? Ask Question Asked 6 years, 11 months ago Modified 5 years, 2 months ago
- indefinite articles - Is it a usual or an usual? Why? - English . . .
As Jimi Oke points out, it doesn't matter what letter the word starts with, but what sound it starts with Since "usual" starts with a 'y' sound, it should take 'a' instead of 'an' Also, If you say "today was an usual day", unless your pronunciation is extremely clear, you risk being misunderstood as "today was unusual day", which will only confuse your listeners
- When and why did the N-word and negro go apart?
When did the terms go apart, and why does one of them have a strong racist connotation while the other doesn't?
- phrases - Why the for in And Ill tell you for why? - English . . .
It's just an 'old-fashioned' usage I can't tell you why the graph shows a massive increase in recent years, but a lot of the results seem to be false positives such as "Daily wisdom for Why does he do that? " (a companion volume to another book), "Judaism's case for why persons matter" and so on
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