amych (and Dana): of course, relying on my timezones would mean coming here to play with me. It's soon Purim, so I can promise the best cookies of the year, as well as costumes. Wine, too, if you want some.

Quick poll:

If you overheard a colleague use the word "perchance" in everyday conversation, would you immediately suspect him of being a time traveller? I'm not saying he has a time machine on him right now, I just saying he's clearly unstuck in time.

Is that fair? Perchance I am too stuck in my ways?

If you overheard a colleague use the word "perchance" in everyday conversation, would you immediately suspect him of being a time traveller?

No, because we talk like that at my office. But we're weird editors like that.

Now, "perforce" -- that's a different story....

Toddson, I work for a legal publisher, and even though I couldn't find anything related to general changes to an employee handbook, I did find this relating to employment-at-will status changes (which possibly might also apply to other issues):

CCH-EXP, HRM-PERSONNEL ¶6011, IS THE EMPLOYEE HANDBOOK A CONTRACT? [T]he Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that unilateral changes of an existing handbook that creates job security in order to turn the employment relationship into an at-will relationship cannot be done without providing consideration to existing employees. Continued employment is not sufficient consideration, nor is awareness of or receipt of the new handbook. Employees must agree to the new terms. The court said they must be informed of any new term, aware of its impact on the pre-existing contract and affirmatively consent to it.

Other than that, in my initial search I only found recommendations for how to create and maintain a handbook (these recs include get employee signatures for updates to the handbook, but nothing legally binding, unfortunately).

I use both "perchance" and "persay" in everyday conversation, but I'm not unaware of their anachronisticicity. Also "mayhap."

Now, "perforce" -- that's a different story....

That's a source control system, and it is heard often around here.

Teppy!

Remember once that you had a piece about how "writing was always a part of you, or rather how you have always been a part of writing"? A friend of mine, who writes, talked today about her writing, from very early childhood, about how she always felt it's something that belongs to her, and I brought your sentence up, talking about how she always felt connected to the world of writing. So, thanks, I guess.

Now, "perforce" -- that's a different story....

That's a source control system, and it is heard often around here.

How about "perambulate"?

I've tried with this place...honest. I even pretended I could decorate. Still no real home. I have a hometown in theory, could even ride by my high school and be true to it, if I didn't think that was the most reactionary sentiment on God's green earth... Still feel homeless, if not houseless.

That's a source control system, and it is heard often around here.

Same here, although we pronounce "Perforce" (the source control system) differently to "perforce".