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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 . . .
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
- 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
- How did the letter Z come to be associated with sleeping snoring?
Edit: Another Wikipedia page: The big Z It is a convention in American comics that the sound of a snore can be reduced to a single letter Z Thus a speech bubble with this letter standing all alone (again, drawn by hand rather than a font type) means the character is sleeping in most humorous comics This can be seen, for instance, in Charles Schulz's Peanuts comic strips Being such a long
- meaning - How is why should different from why do? - English . . .
Why should, asks what you think are aspects or POTENTIAL aspects of the career that would cause a young professional to desire it If this was a conversation as to how to increase the number of people in the field the answer could include aspects that do not currently exist While the aspect could exist in potential, it would have to be real
- What do we call the “rd” in “3ʳᵈ” and the “th” in “9ᵗʰ”?
Our numbers have a specific two-letter combination that tells us how the number sounds For example 9th 3rd 301st What do we call these special sounds?
- phrase origin - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
There is a crime where the robbers wait outside a bank and identify people that are likely to have withdrawn money and then follow them to a place where they are robbed Just today I saw this refer
- Why is I capitalized in the English language, but not me or you?
Possible Duplicate: Why should the first person pronoun 'I' always be capitalized? I realize that at one time a lot of nouns in English were capitalized, but I can't understand the pattern of those left Is there a reason why I still capitalized while you and me are not? Could it have something to do with hand writing rather than the printed page?
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