Excerpt from Egyptian Colloquial Arabic: A Conversation Grammar and Reader The multiplicity of the diacritic points below the letters and the length-marks above; the unsoundness, scientifically, of having so many marks above and below the eve's line of travel and the proved insufficiency of those marks to arrest the attention and to ensure correct habits of pronunciation. In the present book the diacritic marks have been introduced into the body of each letter, and the length-mark is now in the same line as the letters themselves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.