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How weather got its words: a history of meteorological English – Part 1: Old English to the Age of Discovery

Weather, Volume 81, Issue 9, Page 306-311, September 2026.
The English language is a gargantuan, gluttonous beast. It has become extraordinary among its peers in its powers of assimilation – such that we rarely consider the diverse origins of the words we use. In this two‐part paper, we will explore these origins, including the Pontic‐Caspian steppe, the British Empire, latinophone scientists and a TV show. We
Kieran M. R. Hunt
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Arabic loanwords in Indonesian revisited

Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia, 2010
How did Arabic loanwords end up in Indonesian? Various academic answers to this intriguing question have been put forward, but only rarely has any solid linguistic 'proof' been provided. General conclusions have been drawn on the basis of a few, rather unrepresentative or obsolete, examples.
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A Conversation With David Bellhouse

International Statistical Review, Volume 94, Issue 2, Page 221-241, August 2026.
Summary David Richard Bellhouse was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on 19 July 1948. He studied actuarial mathematics and statistics at the University of Manitoba (BA, 1970; MA, 1972) and completed his PhD at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, in 1975. After being an Assistant Professor for 1 year at his alma mater, he joined the University of Western ...
Christian Genest
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Arabic in contact/ edited by Stefano Manfredi, CNRS, INALCO, SeDyl ; Mauro Tosco, University of Turin.

, 2018
Selected proceedings of the conference, Arabic in Contact: Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Perspective, held December 15-17, 2014 at the University of Naples.Includes bibliographical references and index.Arabic in contact, now and then / Stefano Manfredi ...
Manfredi Stefano, Tosco Mauro
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Debunking the Myth: A Dive Into the Role of Relational Capital in Sustainable Food Production Systems

Business Strategy and the Environment, Volume 35, Issue 5, Page 6284-6303, July 2026.
ABSTRACT The shift towards sustainable food production is essential to address the urgent dual challenges of climate change and population growth, with agricultural cooperatives playing a vital role in this transformation. However, many cooperatives struggle to deliver the expected value to their members.
Ismail Badraoui, Tarik Saikouk, Nejib Fattam, Ahmed Hamdi, Vikas Kumar   +4 more
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine

Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 611-625, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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Unpacking China's Digital Ascent in the Global South: The Case of Huawei in North Africa

Global Policy, Volume 17, Issue S2, Page S24-S35, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Despite frequent concerns in Western policy and media circles about the risks of using Chinese telecommunications suppliers, firms like Huawei have encountered little resistance from governments or citizens in the Global South. Empirical research explaining this acceptance remains limited.
Tin Hinane El Kadi
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Perspectives on Arabic linguistics XXXI: papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Norman, Oklahoma, 2017 Studies in Arabic linguistics ;, 8./ edited by Amel Khalfaoui, Youssef A. Haddad.

, 2019
Includes bibliographical references and index.This volume brings together ten peer-reviewed articles on Arabic linguistics. The articles are distributed over three parts: phonetics and phonology, sociolinguistics and pragmatics, and language acquisition.
Haddad Youssef A.,, Khalfaoui Amel
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The non-Swahili African component in Nubi

Studies in African Languages and Cultures
The present article is an attempt at establishing the origins of Africanisms found in Nubi, a Sudanese Arabic-lexifier creole spoken in Uganda and Kenya, with a large number of substrate and adstrate languages.
Andrei A. Avram
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On Souleymane Kanté’s translation of the Quran into the Maninka language

Mandenkan, 2012
The article examines the first complete translation of the Qur’an into the Maninka language, created by Souleymane Kanté — the inventor of the N’ko script and a central figure in shaping the Maninka literary tradition. The author discusses the history of
Artem Davydov
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