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 [log in to unmask]