The designs in the slip appear to have been created through a negative resist technique, in which a lighter-colored underslip shows through a darker overlying slip.

The soothest shepherd that e'er pip'd on plains

Furthermore, περ is productive in the Italiot texts, presumably as a learnedism rather than a popular survival.

God, what an unbelievable fustercluck, she thought, shaking her head from side to side on her pile of pillows as she remembered Sophie's tear-streaked face as she ran down the block and out of sight.