We all know the five Ws – who, what, when, where, why – and their neglected cousin, how.
But when we use these words to create compound words in reply, this happens:
- somewhat
- somewhere
- somehow
But that about the other ones?
- somewho (we have to say someone)
- somewhen (we have to say sometime)
- somewhy (we have to say for some reason)
English is weird.