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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
The Arabic language is commonly spoken throughout a very large area of the old hemisphere. It is the language of the whole of North Africa, which includes Morocca, Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, and Egypt. It is also spoken down the Eastern coast, and in a not inconsiderable portion of the interior of that vast continent. Its home is the peninsula of Arabia, whence it spread also to Palestine, Syria, and Mesopotamia.
page 369 note 1 It seems probable that the familiar expression “dear me,” so often used by ladies in England who have no intention of swearing, may be derived from the Italian “Dio mio.”