Talk:whats


 * It's a word in about the same sense as "whys" is; I see it used in phrases like "the whats and whys of..." A search on "the whats" on Google Books gets in the neighborhood of a thousand hits.  --Dajagr 17:05, 31 July 2006 (UTC)


 * It should be restored then. Fark 17:31, 31 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I guess you could have the plural of ANY word - meaning more than one instance of it. So if there was more than one whats in a book we would then need whatses and then whatseses to describe them. Or am I being silly? (Delete) Παρατηρητής


 * Yes, that would be silly. However, in *this* case, "what" is being used as a stand-in for other terms.  Not instances of "what" but "the whats" that are actually instances of something else.  Quite a different case. Jeffqyzt 15:31, 6 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I have added cites and expanded the definition as to the "stand-in" usage. I suppose we should do whys, hows, whens, etc. But I'm rather meh about them.  Jeffqyzt 01:33, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Cited. Rfvpassed. Andrew massyn 18:30, 29 August 2006 (UTC)