EL connects certain words like "someone/everyone/no_one/anyone", "somebody (etc.)", "somewhere(etc.)", "who/what/where(etc.)" and "whatever/whoever(etc.)" to the word "else".
+---Ss*w--+
+-EL--+ |
| | |
What else is new
Curiously, assorted idiomatic profanity can take exactly the same places
as "else" can; these also take an EL- connector.
+-----EL------+
| +_IOG+_IOF+
| | | |
what in the hell happened ?