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Someway vs Somewhy - What's the difference?

someway | somewhy |

As adverbs the difference between someway and somewhy

is that someway is somehow while somewhy is for some reason.

someway

English

Adverb

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  • Somehow.
  • somewhy

    English

    Adverb

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  • For some reason
  • :* {{quote-web
  • , date= , year=1864 , first=Robert , last=Browning , author= , authorlink=http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Robert_Browning , title=Mr. Sludge, "The Medium" , site=Wikisource, line 505 citation , archiveorg= , accessdate=2012-01-18 , passage=Out of the drift of facts, whereby you learn / What some was, somewhere, somewhen, somewhy ? }}
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  • , year=1988 , year_published=2009 , edition=Reprint , editor=Thomas P. Riggio , quotee=William Morris, 1924 , title=Letters to Women: New Letters , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=University of Illinois Press , isbn=9780252033766 , page=179 , passage=I loved them both—but not so very much else in the book—but I read them over twice & thought—somewhy —of Highland Park & our quaint little trips to Los Angles & elsewhere thereabouts on the street car.}}
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  • , year=2003 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Cameron Royce Jess , title=Bearer of the Chose Seed , chapter= citation , genre=Fiction , publisher=Inscape Publications , isbn=9780973241402 , page=15 , passage=Somewhy I've always had this stupid idea that something or something or somebody awful is waiting here for me. }}
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  • , year=2008 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Margaret Feinberg , title=The Sacred Echo , chapter=Bring Them to Me citation , genre= , publisher=Zondervan , isbn=9780310309079 , page=unk , passage=But somehow, somewhy', he did something and that woman knew it. And somehow, ' somewhy on a whole lot of other days he doesn't do anything we can see ... }}
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  • , year=2011 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Issac Marion , title=Warm Bodies , chapter= citation , genre=Fiction , publisher=Simon and Schuster , isbn=9781439192313 , page=92 , passage=Or is it actually him ? Still holding on somewhere, somehow, somewhy .}}