Saturday, June 13, 2009

There, there

Quick, name all the "there-" adverbs that you know! Let's see, there's thereby and therefore and thereabouts... oh, and therein. Kthnxbai, I'm done. 

Well, it turns out more of 'em are lurking in the dusty dictionary. Some, like "therebefore" and "thereunto," feel so vintage, I feel like I have to put on some bloomers before I could use them.

Check out the words:
  • Thereabout
  • Thereafter
  • Thereagain
  • Thereagainst
  • Thereat
  • Therebefore
  • Thereby
  • Therefor
  • Therefore
  • Therefrom
  • Therein
  • Thereinafter
  • Thereinto
  • Thereof
  • Thereon
  • Thereto
  • Theretofore
  • Thereunder
  • Thereunto
See, this is why English has a vocabulary of 1 million words. It's stuffed with all sorts of fillers and random combinations.

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