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Chris -- 2018-04-11
There are several different denominations within the Islamic religion: Sunni, Shia, Sufi, among others. I wouldn’t want to venture an uninformed guess as to the purity or devotedness of the one or the other. But some have, in thinking that there are Sheer Muslims.
The Safir Al Sayedah Zeinab Hotel is located in Damascus, Syria, adjacent to an Islamic shrine, the subject of pilgrimage by the Sheer Muslims from all over the world.
Hotel blurb
The Iraqis persecuted the sheer muslims living in the south of Iraq
Facts surrounding Iraq war
Lebanon has a lot of Sheer Muslims.
From a politics course, Australia
It’s possible that there is potential for a cottage industry in discovering eggcorns based on the nonrhotic transformation of words ending in -ia and -eer.
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potential for a cottage industry in discovering eggcorns based on the nonrhotic transformation of words ending in -ia and -eer.
Not sure. There are a limited number of common English words ending in “eer.”
I see a few examples of “via” for “veered:”
Tech forum: “yes I’ve completely viaed off the topic hereâ€
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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