<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div>and "the" hoi poloi is also redundant, as "hoi" means "the" in Greek!<br /><br />Thumpe</div></td></tr></table> <div id="_origMsg_">
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<td valign="top" style="font:inherit;">Thumpe, <div>"Whence" means "from where", so to say "from whence" (or as you did "whence from") is redundant.</div><div>Just sayin'.</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"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:lclgcnp@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="javascript:return">lclgcnp@yahoo.com</a>></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 "Grady College of Journalism", whence from the Peabody Awards arise.<br><br>(As it'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'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'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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