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Thread #103975   Message #2124637
Posted By: GUEST,PMB
13-Aug-07 - 07:17 AM
Thread Name: Arabic & African names in English songs & stories
Subject: RE: Arabic & African names in English songs & stor
The Turkish lady is sometimes Susie Pie. If it is Sophia it's more likely to be Christian (and therefore Greek) rather than Turkish/ Islamic. But anyway English folk geography doesn't seem to distinguish between North Africa (Barbary, Moors), Turkey, the Middle East and "The Indies".

Diane, are you saying that if it wasn't for Lord Bateman, we wouldn't have had Waiting For Godot?