This week’s theme
Adverbs

This week’s words
elsewhen
towardly
passing
seemly
thither

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(THITH-uhr)

MEANING:

adverb: To or towards that place.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Old English thider. Earliest documented use: before 1150.

USAGE:

“At some point in the conversation the Israeli PM excused himself and asked for the washroom. ... Thither Bibi repaired for a while, and it may or may not be a coincidence but I am told that later, when they were doing a regular sweep for bugs, they found a listening device in the thunderbox [washroom].”
Boris Johnson; Unleashed; Harper; 2024.

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