Somewhy..?

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In October of 2011, I was writing a post for my blog when it happened that there was a spot in a particular sentence that would be perfectly filled by the word "somewhy", meaning roughly, "for some reason".

It then occurred to me that even though the word and its meaning came very naturally to me, it wasn't a word I had actually seen used before. But "somehow", "somewhat", and "somewhere" are all commonly used words in English, so it seemed to me that "somewhy" should exist as an English word too, especially if its meaning was so obvious.

I googled for the word and Google very politely asked me "Did you mean: somewhat". I was somewhat bugged by this, and no, Google, I did not mean "somewhat". The two definition results returned were from Urban Dictionary and Wiktionary, both giving the definition as "for some reason", with Wiktionary adding that it was "(nonstandard)". Searches in my book copy of Longman Contemporary English, and the online Oxford and Merriam-Webster dictionaries came up with nothing.

Somewhy, "somewhy" isn't a dictionary word?

I briefly contemplated that possibly "somehow" already fills the gap that "somewhy" would take, thus removing the need for the word, but this doesn't seem to be the case. While they both refer to the cause of a certain result, "somehow" is defined as "by some means", and not all "reasons" are "means" (at least not without being unusually generous with the things to which "means" may refer).

"Somewhy" also has a fairly intuitive meaning, and would fit together well with the other "some-" words:

Somehow

adverb, in some way; by some means.

Somewhat

adverb, to a moderate extent or by a moderate amount; rather.

Somewhere

adverb, in or to some place.

pronoun, some unspecified place.

Somewhen

adverb, informal, at some time.

Somebody

pronoun, some person; someone.

Someone

pronoun, an unknown or unspecified person; some person.

So, "somehow", "somewhat" and "somewhere" are all standard English words, while "somewhen" is in dictionaries, though informal/archaic, and "somewho" is rendered redundant by "somebody"/"someone". It appears, to me, that there is no reason for "somewhy" not to be in a proper dictionary somewhere.

I also noticed that this domain (somewhy.com) was empty and unregistered. Therefore, since I was quite free at the time, and I had considered the idea of creating a community website in the past, I decided to register the domain and create the website you're looking at right now.

TL;DR: "Somewhy" didn't appear in the dictionaries I checked. I was quite bugged by this, and I was pretty free at the time, so I created this website when I realised the domain was available.