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- grammaticality - Is starting your sentence with “Which is why . . .
Is starting your sentence with “Which is why ” grammatically correct? …our brain is still busy processing all the information coming from the phones Which is why it is impossible to actually rest
- 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 shrink (of a psychiatrist)? - English Language . . .
I know it originates from "head shrinking", but it doesn't help me a lot to understand the etymology Why are psychiatrists called that? Is it like "my head is swollen [from anguish, misery, stress
- etymology - Why is it spelled curiosity instead of curiousity . . .
How or why has the quality of being curious come to be spelled without its u? Or is it the word curious that is unique, and both words were derived from a word with no u, like curio?
- Why do eleven and twelve get unique words and not end in -teen?
Why don't these words fit the pattern of thirteen through nineteen? [Answer to 1] A remarkably thorough answer to (1) appears at Why do eleven and twelve get unique words and not end in "-teen"?
- “John Doe”, “Jane Doe” - Why are they used many times?
There is no recorded reason why Doe, except there was, and is, a range of others like Roe So it may have been a set of names that all rhymed and that law students could remember Or it could be that they were formed from a mnemonic, like the english pronouciation of a prayer or scripture in Latin Greek
- 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
- idioms - The times are a-changing? Why a-? - English Language Usage . . .
While listening to Bob Dylan songs I've heard some strange use of progressive tense (is that the correct term?), the title of this question is one example Why "the times are a-changing" and not "the times are changing"? I heard other examples (always in Bob's songs), but now I cannot find any Is this some sort of ancient English? Slang
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