Someway vs Somewhy - What's the difference?
someway | somewhy |
For some reason
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As adverbs the difference between someway and somewhy
is that someway is somehow while somewhy is for some reason.somewhy
English
Adverb
(-)citation, archiveorg= , accessdate=2012-01-18 , passage=Out of the drift of facts, whereby you learn / What some was, somewhere, somewhen, somewhy ? }}
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.}}
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. }}
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 ... }}
citation, genre=Fiction , publisher=Simon and Schuster , isbn=9781439192313 , page=92 , passage=Or is it actually him ? Still holding on somewhere, somehow, somewhy .}}