'befell' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a verb that means to happen to someone or something, usually as a misfortune. For example, "The same misfortune befell both families."
For sure, he must have found it irksome to see the fate that befell Rangers after his talents were considered inadequate for a club with European issues.
But the most significant incident in the game befell Puskas.
I was aware of tragedies such as those that befell the stolen generations, and I sympathised broadly with Aboriginal land rights issues.
What caused the calamity that befell the economy in 2007, when the financial crisis was followed by a slump deeper and longer than almost anywhere outside the euro zone?
They are adrift, morose and full of bitterness about the new arrivals.A book published this week* describes the calamity that befell the decent folk portrayed in "Family and Kinship".
Mr Chávez's advisers warned him that Venezuela might be vulnerable to the type of asset seizure that befell Muammar Qaddafi and his family at the outset of Libya's rebellion.
A similar fate befell the ultra-liberals of Freedom and Solidarity (SaS).
In a study in 1995, Jeffrey Sachs, now of Columbia University in New York, showed that the resource-rich grow more slowly than other poor countries even after such variables as initial per capita income and trade policies are taken into account.The usual explanation for this is "Dutch Disease", named for the hardships that befell the Netherlands after it found North Sea gas.
The same fate befell another anti-corruption chief, John Githongo, in another relatively rich country, Kenya, in 2005.
A similar fate befell Microsoft.Spot the differenceYet there are some crucial ways in which Google differs from Microsoft.
