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Publication details [#10228]
Wolfram, Walt and Todd D. Wolfram. 1977. How come you asked how come? In Fasold, Ralph W. and Roger W. Shuy, eds. Studies in language variation: Semantics, syntax, phonology, pragmatics, social situations, ethnographic approaches. Georgetown University Press. pp. 237–254.
Annotation
On factors conditioning the question 'how come?' in everyday conversation.