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                                        <td valign="top" style="font:inherit;">Thumpe, <div>&quot;Whence&quot; means &quot;from where&quot;, so to say &quot;from whence&quot; (or as you did &quot;whence from&quot;) is redundant.</div><div>Just sayin&#39;.</div><div>Paul Bruesch</div><div>Stillwater, MN<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 3:41 AM, Euphonious Thumpe <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:lclgcnp@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="javascript:return">lclgcnp@yahoo.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font:inherit;"><div>Oops!  That should have read &quot;Grady College of Journalism&quot;, whence from the Peabody Awards arise.<br><br>(As it&#39;s 4:30 A.M., I hope that I may be forgiven.)<br>
<br>Thumpe<br><br>P.S. The late, great, Harvey N. Roehl ( publisher of Reblitz&#39;s books, and piano historian) had a hobby late in life of photographing misspelled signs and such. He compiled them (some of which were quite funny!) into a book. (That&#39;s ONE way of dealing with the stress of seeing your fellow Americans --- and possible future nursing home attendants --- becoming less literate.)</div>
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