May 26, 2011 · See also Why Does ZZZ mean sleep? for another theory: The reason zzz came into being is that the comic strip artists just couldn’t represent sleeping with much. ... As the …

Nov 26, 2020 · Why does the word colonel (as in military rank) have such a strange spelling compared to how it's ...

Why not: I don't know why, but it seems to me Bob would sound a bit strange if he said, "Why is it that you have to get going?" Eliminating 'that' before 'Bob' would seem to be more in context …

Sep 25, 2010 · The rules of English grammar are the very reason why such "strange things" happen in the first place. Now, whether or not you actually end up using a double "that" or …

Nov 22, 2011 · As to why, there's this answer: English never had a suitable equivalent for Filipino – a “Philippine,” “Philippian” or “Philippinian” probably just didn’t sound right, so English …

I was looking up a definition online, as I often do, in this case the British slang word tuppence; I got the standard "a slang reference to a coin denomination" definition from …

Feb 15, 2012 · There are also many examples of "Why we cannot", but they are not interrogatives. JForrest explains that 'cannot' is the negative form of 'can', and so 'cannot' should be placed in …

When used in "as to why, how whether" etc., it is often better to drop "as to" and simply use why, how, whether. For example, I don't understand as to why you are going there. I don't know as …

Dec 4, 2018 · "For why" (also hyphenated or written as one word) meaning "why" as a direct interrogative was used in Old and Middle English (see the MED's entry), but it became …

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 …