What's in a Word?

Submitted by Pied Piper (Saudi Arabia), Apr 15, 2017 at 00:02

I thought the HOURIS have recently been acknowledged to be black– not for cosmological reasons, but for linguistic reasons– on the basis that the latest research has determined that the term "HOURI" actually meant "RAISIN" ((dried grape) in the early Islamic period and not humanoid NYMPHS as was once believed. And, of course, raisins are black.

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