She Got it Right!

rogersgeorge on October 8th, 2021

Most people say “from whence.” Maybe from remembering the lines in the high school play that has Rumpelstiltskin saying “No one knows from whence I came, or that Rumpelstiltskin is my name.”

Be that as it may, “whence” means “from where,” so “from whence” is a solecism—an extra word.

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