A friend said, “More than a decade ago, you’d produced a list of ‘Arab’ words, beginning with ‘al’….let’s have the list again!”

I can’t remember too many, but here are the ones that I do:

Lazy Arab: Album Arab who prefers men: Algae Arab who likes stripes: Algebra (the interesting part about this word is that, truly, the world algebra is derived from the word for zero…al-sifr..you can “hear” the “siro” becoming ziro, to zero, to zebr to gebr to gebra!) Arab who likes the US (is there such a one?) Alabama (or even Alobama :D ) Arab losing hair: Alopaecia Arab unity: Altogether Arab twins: Alike Arab tragedy: Alas Arab world: Alok Arab memory loss: Alzheimer Nearing the end of this list: Almost Done!

I’m amazed that my friend remembers this list… I’d tot(al)ly forgotten it!