Today Arabic must be regarded as one of the important world languages. Its earli­est written forms are provided by pre-Islamic North and East Arabian inscriptions using a variant of the South Arabian monumental script. The attested dialects are Liḥyānite or Dedanite in Hedjāz, Thamūdic in north-eastern Hedjāz, Safaitic in southern Syria and Jor­dan, Hasaean in the oasis of al-Hāsa’, and Nabataean Arabic, represented by a few in­scriptions in Aramaic script.

It forms better; you get finely detailed deepdraws.

a brute beast

He looked so sympathetic that I felt sorry about doing my block and asked him to have a whisky.