May 01, 2001

surrendipity

A newsgroup post misspelling whose definition could be: giving oneself over completely to the making of pleasant accidental discoveries.

Posted by Tim at May 1, 2001 11:14 AM
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I ran across this word in the writing of Greg Evason and printed it long ago in an issue of my "Subtle Journal of Raw Coinage."

Its entry is a dictionary project of mine is the following:

surrendipity n [acci cb Greg Evason, misspelling of serendipity, sugg surrender; sjrc 8, dbqp 31] 1. “serendipity” 2. the act of contentedly surrendering to the vagaries of chance 3. riding a motorcycle without a helmet

Posted by: Geof Huth on January 27, 2004 07:47 PM
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