TwistedSifter on MSN: A woman found out someone is passing off her social media photos as her own, and she wants to confront them about it A woman found out someone is passing off her social media photos as her own, and she wants to confront them about it It is definitely NOT COOL to use someone else's photos without permission. "why" can be compared to an old Latin form qui, an ablative form, meaning how. Today "why" is used as a question word to ask the reason or purpose of something.
This use might be explained from a formula such as "How does it come that ...". If you meet an old friend of yours, whom you never expected to meet in town, you can express your surprise by saying: Why, it's Jim! This why in the ... Why is a just a rather odd wh -word.
why does someone pass out, Its distribution is very limited -- it can only have the word reason as its antecedent, and since it's never the subject it's always deletable. Consequently it behaves strangely, as you and others point out. Why the voiced /z/ won out over the voiceless /s/ is not clear to me. Modern French mostly uses /gz/, as in xénophobie, but I don't know the history of how the modern French pronunciation of word-initial x became established.
