>>>>>>Or where. That's where I'd likely want to be - though not at the centre itself, maybe a little to the side.
>>>>>
>>>>>Of course, yes! Where is my English head today? far less stunted.
>>>>>
>>>>>BTW, are you acquainted with the words, somewhat antiquated nowadays, unfortunately: whither-hither-thither (to where, to here, to there), whence-hence-thence (from where/when, from here/now, from there/then)
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>>>>>"Whence" is the only one you may hear occasionally, but people wrongly say "Send him back to the place from whence he came", which is saying "Send him back to the place from from where he came"
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>>>>Now these are all perfectly usable and good words - how could they be left to rust like that?
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>>>I know! I agree. love them.
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>>>Did you know them then? If not, I thought you'd like them - a bit of the Serbian specialisation in them :-)
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>>You're not just giving them all to him are you? What about the rest of us. Maybe we want some of them too.
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>No I didn't give them to him - only loaned. And there's plenty of meaning to go around for you all. Besides, I thought you'd already have digested these words yourselves.
>
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>>>>It seems that most of the rants about English language can be blamed on language democracy, i.e. the language falling into hands of those who wouldn't be bothered to maintain it.
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>>>The language falls thither, whither it can't recover! :-)
>>>
>>>Another one you mightn't know is "withershins": anti-clockwise (not a lot o' people know that)
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>>Or how about 'catercorner', somehow now morphed into 'kitty-corner'.
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>I'd never heard of that one before!
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>How about "Cockaclay" (not sure of the spelling)? I'll wager our Dutch colleagues will get this.

Well, you have me on that one.