coincidentally = ironically = also

[Charles Doyle]

Or "coironically."

--Charlie
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>Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 10:11:14 -0800
>From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM>
>Subject: Re: coincidentally = ironically = also
>
>Like "ironically."
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>  JL
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>Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU> wrote:

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>Or is "coincidentally" simply used in place of (perhaps confused with) "incidentally"?
>
>--Charlie
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>---- Original message ----
>>Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:40:23 -0800
>>From: Jonathan Lighter
>>Subject: coincidentally = ironically = also
>>
>>Discovered, as usual, by chance:
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>> 1999 _Novels for Students_ (ed. D. A. Stanley) (Detroit: Gale) VII 53: Though written in 1891, _Billy Budd_...was first published posthumously in 1924. Coincidentally, the English composer Edward Benjamin Britten, aided by E. M. Forster's libretto, made _Billy Budd_ into an opera in 1951.
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>> JL
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