How come, meaning why, isn’t just Appalachian, as Sasha in Olive Hill, Kentucky, had wondered. It’s an Americanism from the mid-1800s, now widespread in the United States and Canada and generally informal rather than formal. Its origin is uncertain...
What’s your hobby? Or, rather, do you call your interests or passions hobbies at all, or does the word hobby connote something frivolous or strangely obsessive? The term hobby goes back to a nickname for a horse, which transferred to the popular...
