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Show Arabic in Everyday Use Housewives of the world use Arabic In everyday conversation, said Dr. Henry Farmer when he lectured at .Glasgow university, Glasgow, on "Arabian "Ara-bian Influence on Western Civilization," Civiliza-tion," recently. "Housewives, for Instance, In-stance, scarcely imagine that when they talk of sugar, cotton, damask, taffeta, orange, muslin, lozenge and perhaps soap and the loofa, they are using Arabic words," he continued. "Men of learning use Arabic continually,, continu-ally,, probably without knowing it. In medicine, 'alcohol' and "alembic and hosts of other words are pure Arabic, and again, when astronomers speak of 'zenith' and 'nadir,' and mathematicians mathema-ticians of algebra' and 'cipher,' they are using Arabic words." |