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lang=EN-GB><FONT face=Arial>Hi All</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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lang=EN-GB>On </SPAN><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT
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lang=EN-GB>Friday, March 08, 2013</SPAN><SPAN
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lang=EN-GB> Jim Fidelholtz wrote</SPAN></FONT></FONT><SPAN
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lang=EN-GB><FONT face=Calibri><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">So, although I've
never used the word before this discussion, 'tajwid' is an English word. At
least for now. Ask me again next year. Meanwhile, it probably does not belong in
most dictonaries, at least not yet.</FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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lang=EN-GB><FONT face=Calibri><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I don’t think you
(or most english speaking people) have used “kafir” neither or other words from
the islamic vocabulary which are included in OED.</FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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lang=EN-GB><FONT face=Calibri><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">You would not have
included “kafir” in OED or what? </FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-GB><FONT face=Calibri><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I see only one
reason for the inclusion: OED makes the decision from the meaning of the words
and from their cultural and political importance to the english society. It
seems to me that when the discussion focuses on the use of words it is not the
number of the users which counts but the weight of the semantic of the words.
This applies particularly to the type of words discussed here, words for
religious phenomenons. </FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Otto Lassen</FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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