Not sure if we did, but I do know word-initial *f of course shifts to /h/ in Spanish (retained on the Canary Islands and eventually lost (everywhere?) on the mainland). But there's quite a number of cases of hypercorrect spellings of borrowed /h/ written with /f/ it seems.

Missed opportunity for a rhyming solition: "a dictionary of non-classical vocables in the spoken arabic of lebanese locals"

Irish not beating the allegations of secretly being Semitic.

Their soul, obviously :-)

Hahah, yeah. 😅

I was told today that apparently doctors advice against blowing your nose, because there's a danger of infection in your I don't know what you call it, voorhoofdholtes.

So... maybe you should tell yourself that all of us dutchies are just being very careful to not have infectiones like that?!

I like al-Ikhlas!

Well at least the author instructions of those journals don't say they accept .TeX files...

Aargh the missing i is really upsetting.

I did not in any way shape or form intend to suggest that you do not know what you're talking about. I'm sure you do!

I wrote my MA en PhD Thesis in LaTeX, the trade publication of my PhD thesis was also in LaTeX because the editor (Harry Stroomer)/publisher (the late Rüdiger Köppe) gave me free rein to make the publication look however I wanted. But I've never seen a journal in my field that accepts TeX files :-(

With the journals I publish with... yes. Back when I was the technical editor of Arabian Epigraphic Notes, authors were allowed to send in their articles in LaTeX, and I'd take care of the typesetting... not that anyone ever did :-)

The thing is, I'm working together with other people who are working with Word. If I can't be sure that what I'm seeing on my screen is what they'll be seeing on their screen, that's a real problem.

I can't risk spending hours on edits, to learn that it looks all wrong on MS Word with the editors

🤷 I understand and fully respect your objections to that. But I really can't see how Google is going to benefit from learning about my esoteric ramblings about the medieval transmission of Quranic reading traditions which will be published Open Acess anyway.

Yes, I'm pretty sure my work PC is just pretty slow, and Microsoft Word too new. But it's also mindboggling that it's as much of a resource hog as it is.

I mean, I usually work in *google docs*, out of CHROME and somehow that runs more smoothly than Word... How on earth is that possible?