Making words work better
Even more exciting was to discover that to regale is a loanword…from Spanish. At least, it is according to the third edition OED, which presents convincing evidence in support. Other dictionaries give a French origin.
Collins Dictionary looks at Christmas/Advent and Yule words, the origin of both seasonal traditions and their lexicon. Source: Christmas or Yule: the lexicon of the…
Now, apart from the fact fortuitous is being applied to a person, which surprised me, what does it mean? Does it just mean ‘fortunate, lucky’ or does it mean ‘by a lucky chance or coincidence’? Or just 'by chance'?