If one wants to project the image of erudition, or surreptitiously ridicule erudion by the feigning thereof, by affecting archaic verbal forms, one should first learn their proper use. Otherwise one might be perceived, perhaps rightly, as a buffoon. To wit, the word "whence" is never preceded by the word "from." The word "whence" tacitly includes the notion "from." For example, the phrase "... to the piss-holes from whence they come ..." would corrctly be rendered as "... to the piss-holes whence they come ..."
If one wants to project the image of erudition, or surreptitiously ridicule erudion by the feigning thereof, by affecting archaic verbal forms, one should first learn their proper use. Otherwise one might be perceived, perhaps rightly, as a buffoon. To wit, the word "whence" is never preceded by the word "from." The word "whence" tacitly includes the notion "from." For example, the phrase "... to the piss-holes from whence they come ..." would corrctly be rendered as "... to the piss-holes whence they come ..."