Sep 18, 2014 This weeks theme Adverbs A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg perchance PRONUNCIATION: (puhr-CHANS) MEANING: adverb: Perhaps; maybe. ETYMOLOGY: From Old French par cheance (by chance), from Latin per (by, through) + cadentia (fall), from cadere (to fall). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kad- (to fall), which is also the source of cadence, cascade, casualty, cadaver, chance, chute, accident, occident, decay, recidivism, and casuistry. Earliest documented use: 1350. USAGE: New eyes can see things in Worcester that, perchance and mayhap, a few of us who live right here dont -- such as a potentially luminous future. Nancy Sheehan; Artist Likes What He Sees in Worcester; Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, Massachusetts); Mar 19, 2009. See more usage examples of perchance in Vocabularys dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)
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