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Register for free with The Motley Fool and get our FREE "13 Steps to Investing Foolishly" guide! http://by.advertising.com/1/c/62072/30700/103121/103121 <a href="http://by.advertising.com/1/c/62072/30700/103121/103121"< AOL users click here </a< \-----------------------------------------------------------------/ Word of the Day for Thursday October 18, 2001: serendipity \sehr-uhn-DIP-uh-tee\, noun: The faculty or phenomenon of making fortunate accidental discoveries. Still, I was more subject to serendipity than I yet knew. Soon risk, chance, and a letter from Sir Alun Reese-Jones, the Master of Trinity, my college at Cambridge, were to set my life on an adventurous course. --David Freeman, One of Us Yet even as I planned a rough route, leaving plenty of room for serendipity, I was uncomfortably aware that journeys have a way of creating their own momentum. --Lesley Hazleton, [1]Driving To Detroit: An Automotive Odyssey There again, perhaps because of serendipity, or an especially conscientious team of doctors, it can also happen that the crucial clues are noticed and recorded for posterity. --Edward Hooper, [2]The River: A Journey to the Source of HIV and AIDS _________________________________________________________ The word serendipity was formed by English author Horace Walpole (1717-1797) from Serendip (also Serendib), an old name for Sri Lanka, in reference to a Persian tale, The Three Princes of Serendip, whose heroes "discovered, quite unexpectedly, great and wonderful good in the most unlikely of situations, places and people." Serendipitous describes that which is obtained or characterized by serendipity. References 1. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684839873/lexico 2. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0316372617/lexico _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: susan.w.pereira@enron.com To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-WordoftheDay@lists.lexico.com To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-wordoftheday-301289Q@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ (C) 2001, Lexico LLC.
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