The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Lord Of The Rings Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 4 months agoWhy walk to Mordor when you could drive?lemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up1448arrow-down16
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minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months ago from whence Redundant “from” is redundant :)
minus-squareitslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·4 months agoMerriam Webster: from whence : from what place, source, or cause no one could tell me from whence the gold had come —Graham Greene
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoAlso Merriam Webster: Is it wrong to say ‘from whence’? TL;DR: Yeah, it’s kind of wrong, but people have been getting it wrong for so long that it is no longer a ‘vicious’ mistake.
Redundant “from” is redundant :)
Merriam Webster:
from whence
: from what place, source, or cause
no one could tell me from whence the gold had come
—Graham Greene
Also Merriam Webster: Is it wrong to say ‘from whence’?
TL;DR: Yeah, it’s kind of wrong, but people have been getting it wrong for so long that it is no longer a ‘vicious’ mistake.