# Whence, hence, and thence are much too commonly used

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 17, 2006, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whence-hence-and-thence-are-much-too-commonly-used/364853 "2006-07-17T14:35:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![SiouxChief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@SiouxChief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiouxChief)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whence-hence-and-thence-are-much-too-commonly-used/364853/1 "2006-07-17T14:35:42Z")

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…according to the SDMB search engine! I tried to search the forums for “whence” and was informed that whence was much too commonly used to be a good search term. O RLY?

Whence has that opinion emerged?

How am I supposed to find the forum that discussed the redundancy of “from whence”?

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**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whence-hence-and-thence-are-much-too-commonly-used/364853/2 "2006-07-17T14:47:58Z")

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Just search for whenc\*

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**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whence-hence-and-thence-are-much-too-commonly-used/364853/3 "2006-07-17T15:37:34Z")

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Is [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=372696) it?