The word is "why." It's fine by itself. But completely unnecessary when used with the word reason. In fact, there's no reason to use why with reason. The combination "reason why" is completely unnecessary. Don't believe me? Take any expression using the reason why and eliminate why and you'll see why it was never needed. "The reason why I went to Paris was to see Notre Dame." Is no more correct than, "The reason I went to Paris was to see Notre Dame." It's redundant and superfluous, yet this waste of words is used a million times a day as if it were required, which it is not. Look at these two signs taken from the Internet, Neither one needs why, but there is is. I hope we'll see the disappearance of the superfluous why. You know what's even worse? "The reason is because." Yuck.
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