Citations:wh-word

English citations of wh-word

• 2000, João Costa, Portuguese syntax: new comparative studies, illustrated edition, Oxford University Press US, →ISBN, page 65:

  Portuguese, however, is slightly different from Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian in that there is no strict adjacency requirement between wh-words and the verbal cluster in indirect questions.

The w-word (whore)

• 2011, K. Elam, “'Tis Pity She's Italian”, in M. Marrapodi, editor, Shakespeare and Renaissance Literary Theories, Ashgate, →ISBN, page 238:

  The semantic slipperiness of the wh-word, and indeed of the very concept of 'whore' in early seventeenth-century England was such as to make it a catchall term for the denigration of women in general.