<div dir="ltr">Late ME contraction of perilous. Archaic, humorous.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 10:57 AM, David Morris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fqmorris@gmail.com" target="_blank">fqmorris@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Let's call the whole thing off?<div><br></div><div>A NYT editorial [ <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/world/asia/chinese-annoyance-with-north-korea-bubbles-to-the-surface.html" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/world/asia/chinese-annoyance-with-north-korea-bubbles-to-the-surface.html</a> ] this weekend used this phrase:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:27px">"....The parlous state of the relationship between North Korea and China was on display again Wednesday when Pyongyang commemorated the third anniversary of the death of Kim Jong-il, the father of the current leader, Kim Jong-un, and failed to invite a senior Chinese official."</span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,'Bitstream Vera Sans',sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:27px"><br></span></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, Bitstream Vera Sans, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:27px">I'm not familiar with "parlous." Â Is it reall just the same word, different spelling, as "perilous?"</span></font></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><font color="#000000" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, Bitstream Vera Sans, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:27px">David Morris</span></font></div></font></span></div>
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