@Pinboard in Arabic it is Al Jaza’aer (essentially).
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@Pinboard Well, it’s named for the city Algiers, the arabic form of which means “the Islands”, of which it has… not a lot. -
@futuraprime my point is the ‘al’ => ‘ar’ sounds like some Spaniard got tongue-tied once and it never got fixed
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@Pinboard@geeoharee In .es Algiers is "Argel"; algebra is "Álgebra" so it's not a regular sound change; my uninformed: guess -
@Pinboard@geeoharee contact with different groups of Arabic speakers at different times with different regional pronunciations - Show replies
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@Pinboard pobody's nerfect when it comes to methatesis -
@earthtopus Well played.@Pinboard
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@Pinboard All you need to know about ‘Argelia’ http://bit.ly/1lKWyp8 /cc@geeohareeThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@Vibragiel I prefer to call it methasetisThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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