One of my favorite phrases is, “that’s why we can’t have nice things.” It sums up a lot in life, including pretty much every office policy about remote work. It seems it also applies to global sports, ...
Parade on MSN: Tourists ruin historical fountain in Italy as a pre-wedding dare, and this is why we can't have nice things
Tourists ruin historical fountain in Italy as a pre-wedding dare, and this is why we can't have nice things
My mother used to say, "Why can't we have anything nice? You boys just break everything!" We weren't malicious. We were just clumsy, thoughtless kids. The plan, as I understand it, was for her boys to ...
All throughout American history, political and economic elites have insisted that better policies — ending child labor, establishing a weekend — were impossible to achieve. They were lying then, and ...
Why 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. Consequently it behaves strangely, as you and others point out.
Why have a letter in a word when it’s silent in pronunciation, like the b in debt? Can anyone please clarify my uncertainty here?
The grass is wet because it rained last night. This seems the simplest and most elegant expression of the meaning. I am always suspicious of "reason (s)" and "why" being next to each other. There can be reasons for things but there is usually a better way of expressing "reasons why".