Ask question asked 14 years, 10 months ago modified 9 years, 2 months ago Why is this term used instead of the word pressed, which has a simple and intuitive meaning In chemistry, the homologous series for hydrocarbons uses the following prefixes
TechHBS
Why did the english adapt the name pineapple from spanish (which originally meant pinecone in english) while most european countries eventually adapted the name ananas, which came from the tupi word nanas (also meaning pineapple).
Why can be compared to an old latin form qui, an ablative form, meaning how
Today why is used as a question word to ask the reason or purpose of something. I understand that the word spook is a racial slur that rose in usage during wwii I also know germans called black gunners spookwaffe What i don't understand is why
Spook seems to also mean 'ghos. Why don't these words fit the pattern of thirteen through nineteen A word ending with e usually doesn't have a vowel at the end like bike and strike, so why is nike different? The experts say probably as to the meaning of boat
But why should a word that means boat not have a normal plural
Don't overestimate what you find in etymological dictionaries. Which differs from the way the numbers are usually written in continen.
