Re: CHAT: New Member With Questions

On Friday, March 16, 2001, at 09:16 PM, Padraic Brown wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Andrew D Chaney wrote:
>
> >On Friday, March 16, 2001, at 01:56 PM, Padraic Brown wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Scott W. Hlad wrote:
> >>
> >> >We used to have two words in english meaning "where"
> >>
> >> We have _three_: whence, where and whither. Too bad they
> >> don't get more use.
> >
> >Let's not forget hither, hence, thither, and thence.
> >
> >OOC, anyone know just when these went out of style?
>
> Pardon? What means thou "out of style"? ;)
>
> Padraic.
Perhaps 'went out of use by the unwashed masses' is better...

:)


Andy

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