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[-] [email protected] 65 points 11 months ago

As a general rule any English word even vaguely related to science that starts with "al" was invented by some nerd in Bagdhad in 1084 ad

[-] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago

Alcohol "is a medieval loan from Arabic al-kuḥl, a powdered ore of antimony used since antiquity as a cosmetic, and retained that meaning in Middle Latin."

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

and then alcohol ended up getting loaned back into arabic as (al-)kuḥūl

[-] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago

Algebra being another biggie

[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

alchemy, algebra, alkahest, al anon, al-aska, al-abama,

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I've been to Al-abama, beautiful culture and people, even if the language barrier makes them difficult to understand

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