Why does everybody want to help me whenever i need someone's help Can you please explain to me the difference in mean. You never know, which is why.but you never know That is why.and goes on to explain There is a subtle but important difference between the use of that and which in a sentence, and it has to do primarily with relevance Googling 'for why' (in quotes) i discovered that there was a single word 'forwhy' in middle english.
Why is filipino spelled with an f Philippines is spelled with a ph Some have said that it's because in filipino, philippines starts with f But if this is so, why did we only change the beginning. Since we can say why can we grow taller?, why cannot we grow taller? is a logical and properly written negative We don't say why we can grow taller? so the construct should not be why we cannot grow taller? the reason is that auxiliaries should come before the subject to make an interrogative.
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 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). 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.
Relative why can be freely substituted with that, like any restrictive relative marker I.e, substituting that for why in the sentences above produces exactly the same pattern of grammaticality and ungrammaticality The reason that he did it * the cause that he did it * the intention that he did it * the effect that he did it * the thing that. Why does english use no. as an abbreviation for number It's a preserved scribal abbreviation like the ampersand & (formed by eliding the letters of et to mean and) The oed has it in use from the 8th century, based on the ablative numerō used for an implied preposition in
It also gets used by the french based on numéro, which produced wiktionary's erroneous.
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