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Words that say it twice

This week’s words
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hapchance


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PRONUNCIATION:

(HAP-chans)

MEANING:

noun:	1. Luck or fortune.
	2. An occurrence, especially a lucky one.
verb intr.:	To happen.

ETYMOLOGY:

From hap (chance or luck), from Old Norse happ (good luck) + chance, from Old French cheance (event, fortune, or the falling of dice), from Latin cadentia (a falling), from Latin cadere (to fall). Earliest documented use: 1866.

NOTES:

Hapchance is literally chance chance or luck luck. Apparently, one can’t have too much good fortune. Apparently, English wasn’t willing to leave this one to chance. Also see serendipity, which specifically involves a fortunate discovery made by chance.

USAGE:

“Two horses meeting by hapchance was one thing, but a downright, bald-faced preplanned race was, so to speak, a horse of another color.”
Jessamyn West; Except for Me and Thee; Harcourt, Brace & World; 1969.

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