UK's favourite word is... Iranian
Serendipity -i.e. a natural gift for making discoveries quite by accident- is an English word that Iranians would have widely heard of ten years ago, when a BBC poll determined it to be Britain's favourite, upon counting 15,000 submitted votes through the World Festival Trustee project (BBC).
1 | Serendipity |
2 | Quidditch |
3 | Love |
4 | Peace, Why |
5 | Onomatopoeia |
6 | Hope |
7 | Faith |
8 | Football, Muggle, Hello, Family |
9 | Compassion, Home |
10 | Jesus, Money |
The full top ten list of Britain's favorite words.
Coined by Horace Walpole, from the Iranian 14th-century fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip (an Iranian name for Sri-Lanka), serendipity stands as yet another example (Nur ein Wort) of the overt nonsense of some in Europe who excuse themselves on "national identity" concerns in an attempt to censor minarets, hijabs, and religions altogether.
Unfortunately Iranians were robbed a smile or two over the bizarre occurrence, as their Minister of Culture of the time, Ata'ollah Mohajerani, was too busy back then to let them know, opening up the local market (Nur ein Wort) to the books of the Satanist Paulo Coelho (AC2012), architect of the Neda narrative almost a decade later, and director of the Shimon Peres Institute for Peace (Jewcy).
Note: The way in which the author learned of this decade-old news was particularly serendipitous!
Note: The way in which the author learned of this decade-old news was particularly serendipitous!
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2 comments:
wow! That was really interesting to know! jazakallah brother!
very interesting
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