... including:here/there hence/thence now/then thusIn modern English the pairs of demonstratives (i.e. this/that, these/those) express the notion of being either closer to, or further from the writer/speaker. ... friend”,but neither they nor the sex therapists with their talk of one’s “spousal unit” seem to hit the mark. The term “partner” is perhaps the most widely acceptable, thoughsubject to itsown ambiguities. ... maqabir. The confusion led to the dropping of the acute accent from the word macabre, and to the spellingmacaber found occasionally in American English. (See further under -re/-er.) The danse...