Saturday, August 27, 2011

Spelling and Grammar

I spelled the name of people from this country as "Emarati" in the last post because "Al-Emarati", the blog, spelled it that way so I thought it might be correct. I think that it should be "Emirati", at least in English. The name of the country, in English, is United Arab EMIRATES, so I'll go with that.

Also, I look back at the posts and they don't always make sense. My brain races, my fingers and brain get tangled in ideas, thoughts and nonsense! You all know me and how I am.

And unsure if I should refer to the literature of this area as Arab literature, Arabic literature, so I think I called it Middle Eastern. That term is more inclusive of the areas anyway, adding Persian and Northern African, Turkish, Syrian, and, yes, I want to read them all.

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