i f “I am having a spot of bother with t my Arabic,” writes a New Zealand sol--1 dier in Egypt to a friend in Auckland. : “In the Soldiers’ Club in Cairo on ' Saturday night I greeted the waiter , with ‘Ezzayak’—Arabic for ‘Hello.’ j His reply was ‘Bullswool,’ in plain Australian. Was my face red!”
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 181, 27 April 1940, Page 13
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