As language mavens know, discerning speakers say “whence” rather than “from whence” since “whence” means “from where”. This pattern is seen in similar words: “thence” means “from there” and “hence” means “from here” (such as in “henceforth”). While an oversimplification, “from x-re” perhaps then can be replaced with “x-nce” in a sort of locative reversed […]
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