On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Wirt Atmar wrote:

> But even more interesting perhaps, the Arabic word for camel is "gimmel," from
> which the Greeks derived their letter, Gamma, and its name -- the symbol for
> which is a pictograph of a camel. In fact, if you look at the letter Gamma,
> you can still easily see the camel.

"gimmel" doesn't sound right to my Arabic trained ears, I've always heard
it sound more like "gamal" or "gamel", which is also a common first name.

Tracy Johnson
Former Arabic Linguist
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