My wife asked me (she knows I love these out-of-the-blue language
questions) where the word parlous was from, and I said confidently that it
was a variant ...
September 13, 2005
Sri Lankan English
The September 2005 issue of the OED Newsletter contains an article by Richard Boyle, one of the OED's consultants, which looks at the history of Sri Lankan English. A useful overview of the subject from the author of Knox's Words, a study of words of Sri Lankan origin recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary.
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