"mistakes...are the portals of discovery." -James Joyce, Ulysses.
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Love You to Death: Eulogize the Living
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Ensayo y Error, in Spanish.
And for the francophones? essai et erreur
In most cases, I made a mistake, and from the mistake of making a memo (to myself at least).
In other cases, these memos will probably be followed by mistakes.
late 15th century (as a verb in the sense ‘test the quality of’): alteration of assay, by association with Old French essayer, based on late Latin exagium ‘weighing’, from the base of exigere ‘ascertain, weigh’; the noun (late 16th century) is from Old French essai ‘trial’.
etymology: ‘test the quality of