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  1. "Why ...?" vs. "Why is it that ... ?" - English Language & Usage Stack ...

    11 Why is it that everybody wants to help me whenever I need someone's help? Why does everybody want to help me whenever I need someone's help? Can you please explain to me …

  2. Is "Why to... ..." grammatical? - English Language & Usage Stack …

    May 9, 2012 · It’s a headline, first of all, where some grammatical rules are different anyway. So this is not a sentence, but a noun phrase: (This section tells you) why to use page-level …

  3. "Why it is" vs "Why is it" - English Language & Usage Stack …

    Nov 7, 2013 · 1) Please tell me why is it like that. [grammatically incorrect unless the punctuation is changed. Please tell me: Why is it like that? The question: "Why is [etc.]" is a question form …

  4. Meaning and correct use of "as to why"

    As to why I do, I really don't know. (=...but if you want to ask why I do, I don't know.) I am going for sure. As to whether Jane will go along too, you will have to ask her yourself. English is fun, as …

  5. Is "For why" improper English? - English Language & Usage Stack …

    Dec 4, 2018 · For why' can be idiomatic in certain contexts, but it sounds rather old-fashioned. Googling 'for why' (in quotes) I discovered that there was a single word 'forwhy' in Middle English.

  6. Contextual difference between "That is why" vs "Which is why"?

    Thus we say: 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 …

  7. What's the history of the English letter "Y" as a "sometimes vowel"?

    Nov 6, 2017 · Wondering when and why historically the Anglo-Saxon letter "Y" became a (part-time) vowel substitute for the letter "I", leading to "gymnasium" instead of "gimnasium" or …

  8. history - If the letter J is only 400–500 years old, was there a J ...

    Jan 29, 2014 · Why that happens is a little complicated, and requires unpacking some assumptions in your question. In the original languages (Latin, Greek, Hebrew) which provide …

  9. How did the letter Z come to be associated with sleeping/snoring?

    May 26, 2011 · "How and when did the letter Z become to be associated with sleeping?" First of all, zzzz (or z-z-z-z) is sound of snoring, from at least 1918. (Sometimes "a tiny saw cutting …

  10. 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 …