Why?

Why? Ever wonder what this little, three-letter word means. According to Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary it means, "for what cause, reason, or purpose." But who came up with this? Who determined that these three letters placed in this order would come to mean "for what cause, reason, or purpose?"

I imagine it was some 2-year old walking around behind his parents some hundred, or maybe thousands of years ago driving them craze by repeating this phrase to every answer they could think of. If you're a parent you know what I'm talking about.

Ok, I'll admit that there's probably not a lot of people wondering this same thing. As a matter of fact there are some of you thinking, this very moment, Mike has waaayyy too much time on his hands. But think about, there are lot of other little words that we use and haven't you ever wonder where they came from and how they got to mean what they mean?

How? . . . What? . . . Huh? . . . Who? . . .