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Show Many English Word s. Ate Arabic in Origin The Arabs have given the Knellsli upenlflr.g iwiiplo more word to express ttiHr thoughts than i"iy other of the Ifcmiltlo, Asiatic or African groups. "V.'ln-d In' summer jfhu wear yom 'inohnlr' r Vnttnir suit, bviiUI iili o kni.' enjoy "sherbet' with 'candy' Mini chW wlih 'sugar,' nr lie on n 'sofa or 'mail n-ss' milling a 'magazine.' you are drawing on tlmt vocabulary," Prof llilllp K. Hllll of Princeton told the Linguist Ir Society pf America. "In complete Kngllsh lexicon. Arabic would figure In no leu than 18 entries under Hie letter A alone. Many of these words hove tome Into tagllsh Indirectly through the romance languages, he wild, but Arulilc also has served as medium for transmitting nunitier of words of Greek, Latin Persian. Sanskrit, Egyptian, Turkish. Coptic or Hindustani origin, inch us apricot, amire, borai, camphor find ' ebony. , . |