• pyre@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      al- is Arabic for “the”, and English usually takes these loanwords with the article included.

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      2 months ago

      I read a book in 6th grade math class called “A Gebra Named Al” that explained most of this.

      There were chemys named Al in that forest, iirc. I imagine they know a cohol or two named Al, too.