strange to say



strange to say

Also, strangely enough. Surprisingly, curiously, unaccountably, as in Strange to say, all the boys in his class are six feet tall or taller, or I've never been to the circus, strangely enough. This idiom was first recorded in 1697 as strange to relate.
See also: say, strange

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
MainchÍN-Irish
Genettejə-NETEnglish (Rare)
Aybek-Kyrgyz, Kazakh
Sebastiaansə-BAHS-tee-ah:nDutch
Slavica-Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian
Sabinasah-BEE-nah (Italian, Spanish, Polish)Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Polish, Czech, Slovene, Russian, Croatian, Ancient Roman