Thursday 21 May 2015

Hey TW, some posh English for you!


albeit
conjunction: though.

"he was making progress, albeit rather slowly"

heretofore
adverb,
formal: 
before now. 

"diseases that heretofore were usually confined to rural areas"

whence
formalarchaic

adverb: from what place or source.

"whence does Parliament derive this power?"

adverb: from which; from where.
"the Ural mountains, whence the ore is procured"

whereof
adverb,
formal: 
of what or which.

"I know whereof I speak"

wherefore
archaic
adverb: for what reason.
"she took an ill turn, but wherefore I cannot say"

adverb & conjunction: as a result of which.
"truly he cared for me, wherefore I title him with all respect"