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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
Thank you for the correction.
I rarely use the word "whence" (isn't it used more by the English than those of us in the Colonies?). When I have heard it used, I seem to recall the speakers thereof to have said, "from whence," thus the reason, I think, for my faux pas.
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It's a terribly old fashioned word - I don't think anybody actually uses it any more
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"Whence" means "from where", and its partner, "whither", means "to where", but I suspect that you'd get rather funny looks if you were to use them in conversation! German, though, has exactly analogous words, "woher" (from where) and "wohin" (to where), which are still very much used.