Words of the day: Fortuitous and Ruminate

Fortuitous
-adj.

Pronunciation:
[fawr-TOO-i-tuhs, fawr-TYOO-i-tuhs]

Definition:
1.happening or produced by chance; accidental: a fortuitous encounter.
2. lucky; fortunate: a series of fortuitous events that advanced her career.

Etymology:
1650s, from L. fortuitus "happening by chance, casual, accidental," from forte "by chance," ablative of fors "chance" (related to fortuna; see fortune). It means "accidental, undesigned" not "fortunate." Earlier in this sense was fortuit (late 14c.), from French. Related: Fortuitously; fortuitousness.

Quote with the word:
"Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate."
-Augusta Evans

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Ruminate
-v

Pronunciation:
[ROO-muh-nayt]

Definition:
(used without object)
1. to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
2. to meditate or muse; ponder.

(used with object)
3. to chew again or over and over.
4. to meditate on; ponder.

Etymology:
1530s, "to turn over in the mind," also "to chew cud" (1540s), from L. ruminatus, pp. of ruminare "to chew the cud, turn over in the mind," from rumen (gen. ruminis) "gullet," of uncertain origin.

Quote with the word:
"I have a vocabulary all my own. I "pass the time" when it is wet and disagreeable. When it is fine I do not wish to pass it; I ruminate it and hold on to it. We should hasten over the bad, and settle upon the good."
- Michel de Montaigne

Jordan, I have read this word once in a novel that I forgot its title but I am going to search for it and remember!
And when I read it there, I was too lazy to google its meaning, haha, so I left it.

I guess the sentence was like this:

"ruminate at her/his face"

Does anybody know what that was supposed to mean? :/

My Midwestern accent makes the first word clearly pronounced

"fohr-TOO-i-tus." Minnesotan "O."

^ Also the Mainer "O."
Although I'm pretty sure I've heard it as "FOHR-chih-dus" somewhere.

Excellent words, I had no idea what ruminate means.

You rock at this, Jordan.

I have certain resources at hand. :)

I have always used "ruminate" as the same as, say, "stewing." I guess they are both food related, but one is more "cooking" while the other is more.... chewy.

If it's about cuds, I think it should be Ruemoonate.

Sibs,
Take two pun pills & ruminate over your fortuitous choice of humor.

Two words now? Dear sir you go too far, too far by a mile.

I love these words, though I tend to only use them when playing monopoly against my friend Rab. We turn into wordsmiths of the finest breeeding when we play that game.

"Ah, my dear Robert, it appears if my eyes do not decieve me, you are in the rather unenvious position of having travelled, quite by fortuitious chance, to Mayfair, which at this moment in time I own. £2000 my good chap....ah, most magnamious of you!"

Mayfair? Man, Scottish Monopoly must be different. Is your board lacking Boardwalk? Kentucky? BALTIC?

I hope one of the utilities is a kilt.

The first train station is the Hogwarts Express, right?

No Baltic. That would ruin the whole game to me.

Classic Monopoly is based on London. Get with it you yanks.

After being invented by a couple of yanks, some Brit bought the rights to sell the game in the UK. He thought, in order for it to sell successfully, the original American place names ought to be changed to local ones.*

For landing on Boardwalk, you now owe me $400.

*paraphrased shamelessly from Wikipedia.

Get with it, Kev. Also I'm not a yank, so blah on you.

I used the word "fortuitous" in an email today. Wooot.

I don't blame Kevin for thinking that way. The British are just older. Monopoly without Old Kent Road and scarlet The Strand and the deathly Mayfair seems totally bollocky. Apart from this 'traditional' version, I have been given two other versions. One is a Bunnings edition, given to my sister for working there. It's okay. The other is a 'modern' one where you use debit cards instead of cash. That can go to hell.

Star Wars Monopoly can be entertaining...

^
Jordan likes this. (thumbs up)

We should have a like buttone8/8/8/8/8/8/<--that was my cat walking on the keyboard.

Cats are super helpful. Mine helped me drink my glass of milk earlier.

P and Q monopoly.

"You have won the weekly contest, collect 5 comments."

"You have been suspended. Do not log in. Do not collect 10 comments."

Mayfair would be the Moderator's forum.

Free parking would be THE CLUB.

What's the jail?

The jail is suspension, Phantom Mod!

"Free parking would be THE CLUB."

Yes. Or boardwalk.

I don't know if we're classy enough for Boardwalk. Maybe we'd be one of those green ones... those were always my favorite (after Baltic....)