Gee-rusalem! Gee-rusalem! etc.
Nor is there one word to be said in favour of the corruption except that, like the Protestant mispronunciation of Latin and the Erasmian ill-articulation of Greek, it has become English, and has lent its little aid in dividing the Britons from the rest of the civilised world.
[FN80] The moon, I repeat, is masculine in the so-called "Semitic" tongues.
[FN81] i.e. camel loads, about lbs. 300; and for long journeys lbs. 250.
[FN82] Arab. "Jan á zah," so called only when carrying a corpse; else Na'ash, Sar í r or T á b ú t: Ir á n being the large hearse on which chiefs are borne. It is made of plank or stick work; but there are several varieties. (Lane, M. E. chaps. xxviii.)
[FN83] It is meritorious to accompany the funeral cort è ge of a Moslem even for a f
