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Discover LudwigThe word 'Perchance' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to express a chance or possibility. For example, "Perchance, I will get the job I interviewed for."
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Perchance
adverb
Perhaps; by chance
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The X-files To sleep, perchance The watcher in the water Reprints Related topics Energy technology Nuclear energy Physics Science Particle PhysicsThe WATCHMAN is a neutrino detector or, to be precise, an antineutrino detector.
And if, perchance, one day the Basques, say, did vote to peel off, would it be the end of the world?
Religious Zionists tend to be pro-settlements, and there is concern that the army is becoming more sympathetic to the settlers.Special report The next generation Fenced in To fight, perchance to die Miracles and mirages A house of many mansions Hanging on How the other fifth lives A systemic problem The next Zionist revolution Sources & acknowledgmentsReprintsNot that it is hostile now.
The X-files To sleep, perchance The watcher in the water Reprints Related topics Technology Science and technology Energy technology Alternative energy Solar energyThe first perovskite solar cells were made in 2009.
And if, perchance, anyone were foolish enough to leave the ruling party to set up a rival splinter, as the Congress of the People (COPE) recently did, "you will struggle until you die," he proclaimed.
The X-files To sleep, perchance The watcher in the water ReprintsThe latest research suggests one group of people teenagers may be particularly susceptible.
Indeed, were you in Dublin in October last year, in the audience at a small theatre perchance, watching a production of Chekhov's first play, Platonov, you would have seen the WBO middleweight champion treading the boards as the horse thief Ossip.
If Sepp Blatter was perchance watching, the Fifa president might have noted that in ruling where a ball lands in relation to a line, video technology alone is not enough; it needs to be properly administered.
Perchance a brain-scrambling chunk of Kant, Spinoza or some other pointy-headed Teuton of the kind Jeeves browses for a little light relief.
While the Honey Monster's historical cry, so redolent of Oedipal angst, may well become "Inform them of the calorific content, either-gendered parent!" Still, even though it's hard to believe that today's kiddies will come to love Jedward the way we loved Tony the Tiger et al, they can, perchance, learn a valuable lesson from their imminent appearance on the Coco Pops box.
Google's Ngram shows that lots of archaic words appear to be resurfacing -- including gems like perchance, mayhaps and parlor.
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