Apr 13, 2017 · I am publishing an article (research) and I am wondering whether theses words, albeit far more beautiful than their equivalent using which, can still be employed even though the OED described them as

Sep 8, 2017 · I rarely see these words ("whence" and "wherefrom") written and I can't remember hearing them anywhere. Anyhow, I find them to be a good replacement for "whose", which people use even for animals and inanimate objects, like in the sentence that follows:

Feb 25, 2022 · The following is an excerpt from a New York Times article of April 6. “Tonight, I ordered a targeted military strike on the air base in Syria from where the chemical attack was launched,” Mr. Tr...

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Mar 30, 2013 · The point of the quiz question I linked to, of course, was that the irregularity of now illustrates the difference between the formal paradigm (where it stands out like a sore thumb) and the functional paradigm (where it's entirely unexceptionable, indeed more regular than many of the modern meanings of the words in the paradigm).

Oct 16, 2021 · What is the meaning of "whereunto" here? Dionysius the elder, after having, by a tedious siege and elty of Dionysius through exceeding great difficulties, taken the city of Reggio, the T...

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I just saw a parody on the Lord of the Rings, where one of the characters says: it must be cast back in the fire from whence it came!

Feb 11, 2012 · I'd call them compound prepositions.Linguistically speaking, compounds are "composite words" made up from more than one component - in OP's examples the components are words (mostly prepositions themselves), and the …

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