Word: arabicize
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I was reading a reserved book in the Library today, a really beautiful volume done on vellum-like paper, and probably worth well over five dollars. At the end of the assigned portion of the contents some weary soul had poured forth his ennui--not in song, but in some...
"They knew well," says Professor Reisner, "the use of writing from the cumbersome Egyptian hieroglyphics which they had inherited along with the official Egyptian language, and they must have had hints of alphabetic writing from the use of Greek in Ptolemaic Egypt and the use of the Southern Arabic script...
Five centuries ago the decimal system of Arabic numerals was struggling for recognition. In 1400 it was generally known through out Europe, and used in most scientific and astronomical work, but many tradesmen continued to keep their accounts in Roman numerals until about 1550, and monasteries and colleges till about...
It is the inconvenience of uprooting a firmly established "system" and installing a new one in its stead, that causes the difficulty. In British Columbia with the change from left to right it has been found necessary to set up new sign-posts over three thousand miles of road, and...
Circumstances, radical and political, have led to a distinctive method of study, recitation and lecture. The population of Aintab are Turkish-speaking. The text-books to be used are American. Students are obliged to learn English and French as well as Turkish and Armenian or Arabic, but, with the exception...