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   Ellie 🐍 🎄:trans_heart:​ (noelle@chat.noelle.codes)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 07:14:14 JST Ellie 🐍 🎄:trans_heart:​

   English has a bunch of adverbs for motion regarding places that have largely fallen out of use or exist only in set phrases, but I still think they're cool. They follow these patterns:

   "in ___ place": __ere
   "from ___ place": __ence
   "to ___ place": __ither

   "this": h__
   "that": th__
   "what": wh__

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 07:14:13 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     @noelle they're such nice words! I''m also a fan and occasional user of herein, therein and within.

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     Ellie 🐍 🎄:trans_heart:​ (noelle@chat.noelle.codes)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 07:14:14 JST Ellie 🐍 🎄:trans_heart:​

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     The ones that you'll recognize from everyday use are the "in ___ place" set:

     here: "in this place"
     there: "in that place"
     where: "in what place"

     But the rest of them were once in common use too:

     hence: "from this place"
     thence: "from that place"
     whence: "from what place"

     hither: "to this place"
     thither: "to that place"
     whither: "to what place"

     Mostly you'll see "whence" in the set phrase "from whence you came", which means "from from what place you came (from)". The "__ither" set have largely disappeared except for the set phrase "hither, thither, and yon", used to indicate motion to a bunch of places in quick succession.