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This week's theme Unusual conjunctions This week's words argal sobeit whencesoever albeit forwhy Next week's theme Americanisms Give a gift that ... keeps on giving, all year long A gift subscription of AWAD Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg forwhy PRONUNCIATION: (for-HWY) MEANING: adverb: Why. conjunction: Because. ETYMOLOGY: From for + why. USAGE: "She is the weeping welkin, I the earth: Then must my sea be moved with her sighs; Then must my earth with her continual tears Become a deluge, overflow'd and drown'd; Forwhy my bowels cannot hide her woes." William Shakespeare; Titus Andronicus; c. 1590. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time. -Stephen Swid, executive (b. 1941)

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