Meanings
- not comparablepronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of for instance.
Great discoveries sometimes are made by accident. Frinstance, yesterday while idly punching the keys on our 17-jewel typewriter trying to think up something to think about, we found we could make a jim dandy Q simply by making a cap O and then placing a comma in the extreme southern portion of it.
1918 February 22, The Macon Telegraph, Macon, GA, page 6, column 1
plural frinstances
- pronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of for instance.
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