Word of the Day: WHATABOUTS

ETYMOLOGY
from what (pronoun, adj., & adv.), after whereabout(s

EXAMPLE
“…I wish you were as much in intercourse with the Colonial Office as with the Treasury, for then you might know all of my goings on, and whatabouts and whereabouts from Henry Taylor…”

From: Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey
By Robert Southey, a1843