A short trip recently with Caroline to Marrakesh, Morocco, yielded some of the usual stuff:
and some of the things I really like:
Conversely, these storks were not offered for human consumption, but lived on the ruined walls of a 16th century palace:
and for language anoraks – not least those I met last week in the endlessly multi-lingual country of Belgium – here is proof that the Moroccans have invented a letter of their own. Standard Arabic doesn’t have a hard ‘G’, but Moroccan Arabic does. I assumed this came from the French influence, but apparently not. I was told much about original tribes and the sounds they make – though I couldn’t help remembering that the word Afghanistan has this hard ‘G’ too…
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