accidence

But, as Oliver Kamm points out in his book Accidence Will Happen: The Non-Pedantic Guide To English Usage, enormousness meant moral wickedness before it meant enormousness, so where does that leave us?

The titles of 24 Canadian short films were announced, including the North American premiere of Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson’s “Accidence.”

Williams lost his wife Ingrid in a car accidence in 2016.

The Times leader writer, Oliver Kamm, author of Accidence Will Happen: The Non-Pedantic Guide to English, says that the swearing lexicon now draws less from religion and more from body effluvia.

“If you ask me, it’s all that schooling. It takes the fun out of life, being cooped up like that day after day. And the Latin they cram down your throat! Do you realize, Kit, there are twenty-five different kinds of nouns alone in the Accidence? I couldn’t stomach it.”