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Today's Word "parley"
"To the Cid who in good time girt brand my greeting do I send, And let us hold the parley when three weeks are at an end." -- Cid, 'The Lay of the Cid'
arley comes from Old French parlée, from parler, "to speak," from Medieval Latin parabolare, from Late Latin parabola, "a proverb, a parable, a similitude," from Greek parabole, "a comparison, a placing beside," from paraballein, "to throw beside, hence to compare," from para-, "beside" + ballein, "to throw."
This news arrived on: 08/04/2008
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08-11-2008 05:44
Jim Isham wrote:
parley
Parlay vou Anglais? I thought the word was "parlay"; or is that a different word. This is one of the words that a lot of people, including me, a former professional writer and editor (gee, do you know any of those?, misuse.
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