Aaron's question:
Why can you say "however," "whatever," "wherever," and "whoever," but not "whyever"?
Whyever.
02 February 2009
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Aaron's question:
Why can you say "however," "whatever," "wherever," and "whoever," but not "whyever"?
Whyever.
My mom would use whyever to emphasize
ReplyDeleteasking a question, for example, Whyever would you do something like that?
Hey, yeah, it seems to work in that situation.
ReplyDeleteIt seems like a British person might pull it off well.
ReplyDeleteYou can say whyever. I say "whyever not?" all the time. Such as with yearbook last year: "Did you finish the indexing I assigned you?" "No." "Whyever not?"
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