Mar 18, 2011"why" can be compared to an old latin form qui, an ablative form, meaning how. I don't know why, but it seems to me that bob would sound a bit strange if he said, "why is it that you have to get going?" in that situation. Nov 7, 20139 1) please tell me why is it like that.
Why is it like that? This is the case for a question like "why is the boy so big?" — he has eaten. 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.
Aug 22, 2025the history told me nothing why an involuntary, extremely painful spasm, is named after a horse called charley. 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.