• kneelknee 🐖@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Go back to whence you came

    Question: is “to whence” allowed/correct? I thought “whence” always goes with “from”?

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        1 year ago

        TIL! So if you replace “whence” with “from where”, is “go back to from where you came” grammatically correct?

        Also, you’re answer prompted me to search, and I found this neat answer about the history of whence vs from whence; apparently from whence has been (mis)used for centuries!

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          Perhaps I should have been more clear. I didn’t mean it’s a direct substitution for “from where”, just that that’s its meaning. A grammatical translation of the sentence would be “go back to where you came from”.