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Serendipity! The three princes of Serendip would have had trouble creating a word had they lived in Ceylon (Ceylondipity?) or (Sri Lanka - Sri Lankiness?)
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Raccroc sounds like a cross between a raccoon and a crocodile. There used to be a game of naming crosses of different birds. The cross between a pheasant and a duck was the end.
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I found raccroc marked [F] in one online thesaurus and [obs] in yet another; i finally traced the phrase par raccroc down in a French dictionary, by chance. 
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'raccroc', in french, has dual (and seemingly unrelated) meanings: (1) a rip or tear and (2) a sudden sharp turn.
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Serendipity! The three princes of Serendip would have had trouble creating a word had they lived in Ceylon (Ceylondipity?) or (Sri Lanka - Sri Lankiness?)
Ceylonity doesn't sound that strange really. If it had been the original word we wouldn't think it was abnormal.
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Pronounced to rhime with day crock,
raccroc was the founder of McDonalds.
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In reply to:
Pronounced to rhime with day crock,
raccroc was the founder of McDonalds.
Cheesy pun. Fries my mind. Shakes me up.
-- Oh Happy Me(al)
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