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After I mentioned that my wife Marty now has a blog and urged readers "Hie thee thence!", I wondered whether I was using "thence" correctly. After all, if "whence" means "from where", shouldn't "thence" mean "from there"? Was I not in fact urging, "Hurry away from there?"
A quick consultation of dict confirmed my suspicions. "Thence" means "from there". Fortunately, it also means "thereafter" and "therefore". Thus, my statement was ambiguous. Not only was I potentially saying "hurry away from there!", but also "hurry from now on!" and "therefore, hurry!".
I would prefer that readers take my statement in the word's tertiary sense: my wife Marty now has a blog. Therefore, hurry!.
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