Arabic-L:TRANS:Euro (currency) responses

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1) Subject: Euro (currency) response
2) Subject: Euro (currency) response

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1)
Date: 08 May 2001
From: Yaser Al-Onaizan <yaser at ISI.EDU>
Subject: Euro (currency) response

>  yuuruu (ya long vowel u ra long vowel u) íæÑæ (close to English
>pronunciation)

The above translation is the one that is used in Saudi (by newspapers
and banks).

Yaser

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2)
Date: 08 May 2001
From: Tim Buckwalter <TimBuckwalter at aol.com>
Subject: Euro (currency) response

I checked my wordlist (from a corpus of slightly under 600 million words) and
yuuruu beats 'uuruu 15 to 1.
Rank = position in the wordlist
Freq = raw frequency
FileCnt = number of files/documents containing the word
(sorry about the format--it looks like the tabs are being converted to spaces)
Tim Buckwalter

Word Rank Freq FileCnt
ÇáíæÑæ 8991 21074 6120
ÈÇáíæÑæ 42911 1822 859
ááíæÑæ 43264 1204 848
æÇáíæÑæ 55502 684 584
ÝÇáíæÑæ 361563 24 20
áíæÑæ 440031 14 14
ÇáìæÑæ 460518 43 12
ßÇáíæÑæ 522414 10 10
æÈÇáíæÑæ 639693 7 7
ÓÚÑÇáíæÑæ 664533 7 6
ÈÇáìæÑæ 812934 5 4
æááíæÑæ 1083331 3 3
ÇáãæÍÏÉÇáíæÑæ 1206877 2 2
ãÇáíæÑæ 1368638 2 2
áÇáíæÑæ 1500373 3 1
ÇÇáíæÑæ 1588364 1 1
ÇÓÊãÑÇáíæÑæ 1610362 1 1
ÇáÊßäæáæÌíÇÇáíæÑæ 1664712 1 1
ÇáÝÑäßÇáíæÑæ 1715950 1 1
ÇáÝáÓØíäíÇáíæÑæ 1717121 1 1
ÊÚËÑÇáíæÑæ 1901111 1 1
ÌæäÒÇáíæÑæ 1930284 1 1
ÏæáÇÑÇáíæÑæ 1955208 1 1
ÑÇáíæÑæ 1963089 1 1
ÓÇáíæÑæ 1981434 1 1
ÖÚíÝåæÇáíæÑæ 2021727 1 1
áìæÑæ 2225857 1 1
ãäØÞÉÇáíæÑæ 2281807 1 1
æÌæåÇáíæÑæ 2433224 1 1
æÓäÛÇÝæÑÉÇáíæÑæ 2452009 1 1
æãäØÞÉÇáíæÑæ 2516103 1 1
íßæäÇáíæÑæ 2571129 1 1
===== 32 forms (Total Freq: 24921 = 1 every 23642 words)

Word Rank Freq FileCnt
ÇáÇæÑæ 76986 726 347
ÇáÃæÑæ 82418 426 310
ááÇæÑæ 137996 143 127
áÇæÑæ 185800 108 73
ááÃæÑæ 218192 60 54
ÈÇáÇæÑæ 280280 46 33
æÇáÃæÑæ 297946 30 30
æÇáÇæÑæ 305776 32 28
ÈÇáÃæÑæ 390430 26 17
ÝÇáÃæÑæ 2057230 1 1
===== 10 forms (Total Freq: 1598 = 1 every 368701 words)

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