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longship

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2. Hope everybody likes eating sea jellies.

Reply to GliderGuider (Original post)

Thu Jul 2, 2015, 09:36 PM

Jul 2015

BTW, the author desparately needs an editor. "parlous risk" What the hell is that? Probably means "perilous risk".

R&K

On edit: parlous is appropriate here. Looked it up in the OED. It says it's archaic. Never heard of the word before. Means "uncertainty".

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Hope everybody likes eating sea jellies. longship Jul 2015 #2

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