coincidence__vs__coincidince MisterFunkadelic from dogma_movie Megan, just so you know "oops" duped you into spelling the word coincidence wrong, you had it right the first couple of times. Don't sweat it too much though, at the very worst, misspelled words become the seeds of some funny blathes around here. And now, for "oops" I've got to slip into "teacher mode" (sorry folks, occupational hazard - and while I teach high school biology somewhere in an otherwise mostly undisclosed location, I'd be on shaky ground as a teacher if my grammar and spelling were crap) COINCIDENCE (ko'-in-sid-eNs) Noun, rooted in word "incident" meaning "happening" or "occurrence" hence, a coincidence would be something happening at the same time as something potentially connected to it, at least according to context in which we generally use the word. Example: Two students who seem to perform as if they shared the same brain sit in visual distance from each other's desks - both have the identical verbage in their answer to a brief essay question, down to the spelling mistakes... coincidence? They might say so, but I say.... "Naaaaahhhh!" The actual coincidence is how they both ended up going to the office on the same afternoon with referral slips signed by the same teacher and probably got the same penalty. 030101 what's it to you? who go blather from