> >Languages do fascinate me.
>
> YES!!
> Then, if you checked out Portuguese (and Spanish, for that matter) you
> found dozens of Arabic words and grammar traits in it.
> Armando Jose' de Oliveira Brito de Sa'
> :-))
I have sometimes wondered what my devoutly Roman Catholic patients on the
Mexican border would have thought of the derivation of the commonly used
term "Ojala que si!" (May Allah will it so!)
Philip G. Dunlap, D.O., M.P.H., Ph.D.
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Natick, MA, 01760, USA
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