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Ever wondered about the phrase “how come”? I’ve always wondered how it became a common phrase since it sounds like it makes no sense.
I looked it up and this is what randomhouse.com came up with:
The admittedly obscure-looking how come?, a colloquial Americanism for ‘how is it that?’ or ‘why?’, is based on a shortened form of an expression such as “how comes it that…” or “how did it come about (that)…”
These still-somewhat-obscure phrases depend on a usually archaic sense of come meaning ‘to come about; happen; occur; become’, combined with an archaic word order placing “how” and “come” together at the beginning of a sentence.
While this type of use seems rare now, it was once very common. A selection of examples showing this earlier use of how with come (not the same as our modern colloquial phrase) (some of this examples show slightly different structures, such as the Austen quote, which is “come about” in an archaic word-order):
“How comes it then that he is prince of devils?” (Marlowe, Doctor Faustus); “How comes it that they travel?” (Shakespeare, Hamlet); “How comes it thus?” (Milton, Paradise Lost); “How comes any particular thing to be of this or that sort?” (John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding); “How comes it to be any concern of yours?” (Fielding, Tom Jones); “How comes this about; there must be some mistake” (Jane Austen, Mansfield Park); “How comes it that we whalemen of America now outnumber all the rest of the banded whalemen in the world?” (Melville, Moby-Dick); and “Then if it’s so precious how comes it to be cheap?” (Henry James, The Golden Bowl).The American sense is derived from uses like these, and as the original phrase “how comes it…” has become difficult to understand, the expression how come has become more and more a set phrase.
As we’re familiar with it, how come first appears in John Bartlett’s 1848 Dictionary of Americanisms, one of the important early books dealing with American slang and colloquial expressions. Bartlett’s comments suggest that it was in widespread use when he wrote.
Rhys has been getting a lot of flak on the internet lately when it comes to his efforts in Formula D and the drifting scene.
But really, nothing negative can be said about the man when he is in his element doing what he does best – racing.
Check out these incredible videos of him as he breaks the world record for his class at Pike’s Peak.
Rhys Millen and his Pike’s Peak Winning Run
He makes it look so easy huh? I for one, cannot even imagine doing that kind of performance driving in the dirt with a rear wheel drive car… but it really looks like a blast to take all these corners sideways like that – especially on the paved sections! I think Pike’s Peak is calling my name guys!
(Source: Wrecked Magazine and Jalopnik)
As a youngin drifter, I always wanted to drift turn 1 at Streets of Willow… it’s by far the fastest corner on the track and it always seemed to be way out of my reach skills wise. It didn’t help that they stopped allowing drifting on this track a really long time ago. BUT they opened up the track again for Just Drift and their ASB event they held there last weekend. I wasn’t able to get my car out, but some people accomplished my goal for me… here’s Hiro doing a 4th gear clutch kick into turn 1.
Lucky for me, boss man was one step ahead of me and got us breakfast!
Subway’s flatbread breakfast sandwich – omelette style egss, bell pepper, red onion, BACON.
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