<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>Arabic-L: Mon 23 Feb 2010</div><div>Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <<a href="mailto:dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu">dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu</a>></div><div>[To post messages to the list, send them to </div><a href="mailto:arabic-l@byu.edu">arabic-l@byu.edu</a><div>]</div><div>[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">listserv@byu.edu<div> with first line reading:</div><div> unsubscribe arabic-l ]</div><div><br></div><div>-------------------------Directory------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>1) Subject:kul wa-ushkur</div><div><div>2) Subject:kul wa-ushkur</div><div><br></div></div><div>-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------</div><div>1)</div><div>Date: 23 Feb 2010</div><div>From:Li Guo <<a href="mailto:Li.Guo.6@nd.edu">Li.Guo.6@nd.edu</a>></div><div>Subject:kul wa-ushkur</div><div><br></div><div>thank you all! Li</div><div><br></div><div><div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><div>2)</div><div>Date: 23 Feb 2010</div><div>From:Muhammad Eissa <<a href="mailto:eissa@comcast.net">eissa@comcast.net</a>></div><div>Subject:kul wa-ushkur</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Since no one has come up with a documented story, and since the<br>majority agreed that the kind of sweet with such a name is small, I would<br>venture a thought. When it was first presented to greedy person, he<br>screamed, complaining about the side (you may imagine his hand and face<br>expression): THAT IS IT? At the moment, the host screamed back (again<br>imagine the gestures): kul wishkur!! The rest of the conversation could have<br>gone like this: ياراجل يا طماع ياللي ما يملاش عينك إلا التراب and, as my<br>grandmother use to say: توتة توتة وفرغت الحدوتة <br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Sorry if this is not scholarly enough for some of you, but some good<br>reason must have been behind that name. . . . go find it. <br><br>Salaam <br>Muhammad Eissa<br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>End of Arabic-L: 23 Feb 2010</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br></body></html>