I have adverted to the framework received in translating outside words, It only offends you until the day it defends you shirt, and I presently finish up these primer comments (planned uniquely to render the educated Review simpler of scrutiny to the general peruser, and to smooth his initial phases in a bizarre land), by citing, with some slight enhancements by Mr. Path, the clarification of that framework given in the introduction to the first edition.xix

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“Recorded as a hard copy Arabic and other Oriental words in the present work, It only offends you until the day it defends you shirt. I have utilized a framework harmonious with our language, and of the most straightforward kind; and to this framework I follow for each situation, for consistency just as truth.5 Some people have protested my writing as such a couple of commonplace words which are found in our lexicons; yet they will pardon me for commenting that general utilization isn’t by and large understanding with their feeling. Pretty much every writer, I accept, presently composes ‘Koran,’ or ‘Kurán,’ and ‘Pasha,’ or ‘Pacha,’ for our lexicon words ‘Alcoran’ and ‘Bashaw;’ and the greater part of our best writers on Arabian History, recently, have composed ‘Khalif’ for ‘Caliph.’

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In a work identifying with a people who articulate the Arabic w as v, I ought to compose ‘Vezeer’ for the Arabic word ‘Wezeer;’ yet to do so when the subject is Arabian, I think about inexpedient: and in this sentiment I am maintained by an extraordinary dominant part of abstract and different companions whom I have counseled regarding the matter, in the extent of five to one. I may include that Dr. Johnson has written in his Dictionary, ‘Vizier [properly Wazir];’ and on the off chance that we express the Arabic vowels by their Italian reciprocals, it is appropriately ‘Wazír’ or ‘Wezír.’— The framework which I here utilize requires however little clarification; the general peruser might be coordinated to articulate.