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Serious question: Is this proper English?

> Where the name dockerlite comes from?

I keep seeing that sort of arrangement in headings like "How it works?" where I expect it to say "How does it work?" and I'm starting to wonder if that's actually valid English or just a common error.

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It depends on the phrasing.

"This is [how it works]", "How does it work?"

I was wondering [where the name dickerlite comes from]? Where does the name dickerlite come from?

  "I was wondering [where the name dickerlite comes from]? Where does the name dickerlite come from?"

I'm also wondering where 'dickerlite' came from..

Freudian slip?

This comes from the dotcloud team, who also makes docker. I believe this particular person speaks French as his main language. Cut him some slack :)

I wasn't trying to be rude. I was genuinely curious, since I've seen that phrasing so often.

I take full responsibility for all the horrendous orthographic, grammatical, or otherwise language-related mistakes committed in this README :-)

I can't speak to other areas, but it's not standard for American English. To my ear it sounds Slavic.

Switch the question mark with a colon, and it becomes valid English :)

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