When I was five, a waitress asked me if I wanted soup or salad. I said ‘Super salad!’
Yes, I just did a search on “perq” and it redirected me to “perk”. “Perq” is listed as a variant form, but all the quotations (the earliest is from 1869) use “perk”. I see nothing to indicate that the “perq” spelling was ever commonly used or that it predated “perk”.
There’s a note in the etymology section that says “Compare earlier Scots pirkuz”, with a quote from 1824 defining “pirkuz” as “any kind of perquisite”.
And a mod says this, no less…
You do have a point about drips. BUT, you should have your coffee cup taken away, for that. Keep the ‘jackboots’. We don’t care about that one. I use a proper percolator for my coffee…
At least Carter was a proper ‘Nuclear [note the spelling] Officer’. He may have been an idiot. I [del]make[/del] express no judgment on that point.
I’ve always seen “perk”, never perq.
And now you’ll come across it 100 times in the next week.
Though the Q appears at the beginning, ** this esteemed physician** shuns the u.
But Qadgop is an alien with a zymolosely polydactile tongue, and his name is not English but Mercotan.
Non-English names often include a “q” without a “u,” notably Iraq (and the Iraqi Tariq Aziz).
So, should we start spelling it Qolibri, now? Them hummingbirds have rather bizarre tongues.
Actually, I prefer the spelling Huitzilopochtli.
So you’re saying your tongue is in your left cheek?