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Jan 20, 2011 This week's theme Verbs This week's words intromit remonstrate execrate betide expostulate The gift of words Send a gift subscription In less than a minute! Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg betide PRONUNCIATION: (bi-TYD) MEANING: verb tr., intr.: To happen. ETYMOLOGY: From Old English tidan (happen), from tid (time). Often used in the phrase "woe betide". Earliest documented use: 1297. USAGE: "Whatever betided at the end of Mitt Romney's term and whatever betides in the future, that shouldn't be forgotten." David A. Mittell Jr.; As the Good Times Roll; Providence Journal (Rhode Island); May 17, 2007. Explore "betide" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought. -Pierre Bayle, philosopher and writer (1647-1706)

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