My Web of Words - 13 - Apricot

Though, like many people, I take a keen interest in Arab words adopted into European languages, this linguistic crossover alone isn't enough to quench my thirst for knowledge. Sometimes it even runs counter to the point I'm trying to make. For Arab civilisation is more than just one of Western civilisation's wellsprings; it is not just a way-point, still less a mere conduit; Arab civilisation, first and foremost, is daughter to the same ancestors as the West, and is much inspired by Greece a...