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Whither
/ˈwɪðɚ/ (adv. or conj.)

(Archaic, but fun and underused): To what place. To where. A nifty means of avoiding that noisome preposition “to”. The inverse of “whence”.

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	(Archaic, but fun and underused): To what place. To where. A nifty means of avoiding that noisome [[preposition]] “to”. The inverse of “[[whence]]”.		(Archaic, but fun and underused): To what place. To where. A nifty means of avoiding that noisome [[preposition]] “to”. The inverse of “[[whence]]”.