View Poll Results: Which region are you from?
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From whence did you come?
Nov 3rd 2013, 12:26 pm
#31
Born again atheist
Joined: Jul 2005
Location: Europe (to be specified).
Posts: 30,259
Nov 3rd 2013, 10:59 pm
#32
Slob
Joined: Sep 2009
Location: Ottineau
Posts: 6,342
Re: From whence did you come?
I put South East, although I spent most of my adult life in London before emigrating (apart from a couple of years expatting in Frogland).
Nov 4th 2013, 12:29 am
#33
Lowering the tone
Joined: Mar 2007
Location: Here and there
Posts: 7,394
Re: From whence did you come?
I recall that Berwick-upon-Tweed formally signed a peace treaty with the USSR in the 1980s (?), following the discovery that they were still technically engaged in the Crimean War.
Last edited by Jingsamichty; Nov 4th 2013 at 12:32 am. Reason: Wrong war - I was out by a century
Nov 4th 2013, 12:42 am
#34
Every day's a school day
Joined: Jan 2005
Location: Was Calgary back in Edmonton again !!
Posts: 2,667
Nov 4th 2013, 1:50 am
#36
Magnificently Withering
Joined: Jan 2007
Location: Oakville, ON
Posts: 6,892
Re: From whence did you come?
I put South-East, but having lived a somewhat peripatetic existence in my formative years it's all a bit meaningless. I don't really associate with any one particular region, and have lived at various points in at least half a dozen of those on the poll.
Added to which, of course, the pedant in me squirms at the redundant "from" in the question
Added to which, of course, the pedant in me squirms at the redundant "from" in the question
Nov 4th 2013, 1:55 am
#37
me/moi
Thread Starter
Joined: Nov 2012
Location: UK
Posts: 24,531
Re: From whence did you come?
I put South-East, but having lived a somewhat peripatetic existence in my formative years it's all a bit meaningless. I don't really associate with any one particular region, and have lived at various points in at least half a dozen of those on the poll.
Added to which, of course, the pedant in me squirms at the redundant "from" in the question
Added to which, of course, the pedant in me squirms at the redundant "from" in the question
Nov 4th 2013, 2:13 am
#38
Magnificently Withering
Joined: Jan 2007
Location: Oakville, ON
Posts: 6,892
Re: From whence did you come?
Fowler is (for him and his subsequent editors) surprisingly lax on the matter too, although he does sound a note of caution:
In general use, if whence has to be used, it is best used without from; but of course the problem can be avoided altogether by rephrasing in a way that is in any case more natural in modern English.
Nov 4th 2013, 2:32 am
#39
me/moi
Thread Starter
Joined: Nov 2012
Location: UK
Posts: 24,531
Re: From whence did you come?
I know. There's a long and distinguished list of precedents to draw from, including Dryden, Shakespeare, Dickens... but that's no obstacle for the true pedant
Fowler is (for him and his subsequent editors) surprisingly lax on the matter too, although he does sound a note of caution:
Fowler is (for him and his subsequent editors) surprisingly lax on the matter too, although he does sound a note of caution:
Nov 4th 2013, 2:38 am
#40
Lowering the tone
Joined: Mar 2007
Location: Here and there
Posts: 7,394
Re: From whence did you come?
Nov 4th 2013, 2:42 am
#41
Slob
Joined: Sep 2009
Location: Ottineau
Posts: 6,342
Re: From whence did you come?
I'm glad to see I was not the only one to pluck Fowler's from my office bookshelf.
It is a legit phrase, if somewhat outdated.
It is a legit phrase, if somewhat outdated.
Nov 4th 2013, 4:36 am
#43
"In cruce vincam"
Joined: May 2010
Location: Mill Bay, Vancouver Island
Posts: 3,232
Nov 4th 2013, 8:06 am
#44
The ride never ends
Joined: Sep 2011
Location: SW Ontario
Posts: 2,481
Re: From whence did you come?
The nice Unionist bit of Northern Ireland
