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Whydunit vs Whydunnit - What's the difference?

whydunit | whydunnit |

As nouns the difference between whydunit and whydunnit

is that whydunit is a type of detective story in which the focus is not on who committed the crime, but what were their motives for committing it while whydunnit is .

whydunit

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Noun

(en noun)
  • A type of detective story in which the focus is not on who committed the crime, but what were their motives for committing it.
    • 1985 , Laurence Urdang, Walter W. Hunsinger, Nancy LaRoche: Picturesque expressions: a thematic dictionary , p 420[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=E3MYAAAAIAAJ&q=whodunit+howdunit+whydunit&dq=whodunit+howdunit+whydunit&lr=]:
  • :* Connery takes over the interrogation and in the process beats the man to death. This much we know almost from the beginning, so the film is less of a whodunit than a whydunit .

    • Related terms

    * howdunit * whodunit

    whydunnit

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    Noun

    (en noun)