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lasher
02/19/08, 06:44 PM
Hey now....

From CliffsNotes Newsletters:

What is behoveful?
(bē hōv' fəl)

Behove is the British variation of behoove.....

It would behoove you to read this...

To be necessary, proper or advantageous for......

Mother: What, are you busy, ho? Need you my help?

Juliet: No, madam; we have culled such necessaries / As are behoveful for our state tomorrow. / So please you, let me now be left alone, / And let the nurse this night sit up with you; / For I am sure you have your hands full all / In this so sudden business.

From Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (Act IV, Scene 3).

ctivnan
02/19/08, 08:59 PM
:thankyou:

That's a pretty interesting word you got there! It's a new word for me! :happy0045:

Is it used only in literature?

cmo
02/19/08, 09:55 PM
Nice, new word to my vocabulary!!! :thanks:

lasher
02/22/08, 07:13 PM
:thankyou:

That's a pretty interesting word you got there! It's a new word for me! :happy0045:

Is it used only in literature?

Hey now MsC,:hey:

No, behoove isn't used every day, but it is not just for literature.

The newsletter I get has a word of the week - they show their word's meaning through action via the use of literature...:c_o_o_l:

lasher
02/22/08, 07:14 PM
Nice, new word to my vocabulary!!! :thanks:

Hey now cmo,:hey:

Your welcome..:mypleasure:

ctivnan
02/25/08, 11:03 AM
Hey now MsC,:hey:

No, behoove isn't used every day, but it is not just for literature.

The newsletter I get has a word of the week - they show their word's meaning through action via the use of literature...:c_o_o_l:

:thankyou: Now I have to try using this in a formal setup. :lol:

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