Mar 18, 2011"why" can be compared to an old latin form qui, an ablative form, meaning how. [grammatically incorrect unless the punctuation is changed. Have the implicit definitions of these words changed/converged over time?
Nov 27, 2018why is a just a rather odd wh -word. Its distribution is very limited -- it can only have the word reason as its antecedent, and since it's never the subject it's always deletable. Can anyone please clarify my uncertainty here?