Statistics Saturday: Some Useful Triplets Of Words

Proximate Form	Demonstrative Form	Interrogative Form
here	there	where
hither	thither	whither
hat	that	what
he	the	whe (*)
hence	thence	whence
horn	thorn	worn (**)
hen	then	when
his	this	whis (*)
hack	thack(*)	whack
hit	thit	whit
hump	thump	whump
heir	their	wheir (*)
herefore	therefore	wherefore
heretofore	theretofore	wheretofore

(*) denotes a word which theory indicates should exist but which has not been confirmed by an independent word laboratory.

(**) the ‘h’ was lost during the Algeciras Conference when it rolled under a table at the end of the room and was too much trouble to salvage.

Reference: The Paper: The Life and Death of the New York Herald Tribune, Richard Kluger.