Revision 5.19 “What the West Owes the East” (A Word Sampler, Part 2, Including Excurses on Chess and the Book of Mormon)

    Changing gears, it is worth noting that many terms connected with warfare have entered our Western languages from the Arabs. (Perhaps this says something of the state of war that has existed between Christendom and the world of Islam through much of their shared his­tory.) Some of these words have amusing histories in […]
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