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Originally Posted by Avistew
How it "Papierwaite" a French name? Doesn't look French to me at all. And I've been told his accent is French but can't hear that, but I have to admit I'm terrible at recognising accents anyways.
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Well, the spelling looks like it was influenced by French pronunciation; the "ai" in "Papierwaite" is pronounced the same way as the "ai" in "aimer," the French word for the act of liking or loving.
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Originally Posted by Lena_P
Okay, to clarify, Fez is a city in Morocco. That's where the hats came from, and they are worn in Morocco, but they were also de rigeur in Egypt for something like an hundred years, and seeing as how Papierwaite lived there for awhile I'm guessing that's where he picked it up. And the "babouche" are more Turkish than Arab, but were worn in parts of the Arab world an hundred years ago when Ottoman rule covered half of the Arab world. Westerns think they're cute, so like the turban, again not actually traditional, they're still produced for tourist purposes. Also not everyone from North Africa is Arab. Turks aren't Arab either, just so you know. They're Indo-European, but not part of the same sub-group as the Iranians. Or Kurds or Armenians.
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Thanks for getting the details straight. I love you.