Skip to main content
English Language & Usage

Return to Question

Tweeted twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/1543112234792091648
added 8 characters in body
Source Link
Scrandre
Scrandre
  • 37
  • 2

So we have:

  • Where-Nowhere
  • When-Never(/Nowhen)
  • Who-Nobody
  • What-Nothing

Why can't we also have "nohow" and "nowhy"?

"No reason" works to some extent, but "nohow" isn't really replaceable in a concise manner, to my knowledge.

The real question here is not how to say it otherwise, but why it would be horribly wrong to use it. And would it?

So we have:

  • Where-Nowhere
  • When-Nowhen
  • Who-Nobody
  • What-Nothing

Why can't we also have "nohow" and "nowhy"?

"No reason" works to some extent, but "nohow" isn't really replaceable in a concise manner, to my knowledge.

The real question here is not how to say it otherwise, but why it would be horribly wrong to use it. And would it?

So we have:

  • Where-Nowhere
  • When-Never(/Nowhen)
  • Who-Nobody
  • What-Nothing

Why can't we also have "nohow" and "nowhy"?

"No reason" works to some extent, but "nohow" isn't really replaceable in a concise manner, to my knowledge.

The real question here is not how to say it otherwise, but why it would be horribly wrong to use it. And would it?

Bumped by Community user
Source Link
Scrandre
Scrandre
  • 37
  • 2

Why aren't "nohow" and "nowhy" real words?

So we have:

  • Where-Nowhere
  • When-Nowhen
  • Who-Nobody
  • What-Nothing

Why can't we also have "nohow" and "nowhy"?

"No reason" works to some extent, but "nohow" isn't really replaceable in a concise manner, to my knowledge.

The real question here is not how to say it otherwise, but why it would be horribly wrong to use it. And would it?