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The Word “Mol”
If you have ever heard Moroccans talking, you’ll notice a word sound that is used so often in everyday Moroccan conversation, and it is pronounced just like the English word “Mole”, which means “the man who sells or owns or does” the thing.
-Mol Hummus means the man who sells Hummus.
-Mol Tubis means the man who drives a bus.
-Mol Hanot means the man who owns a store.
But, if we are talking about a woman who sells or owns or does the thing, we use the word “Molet” which is pronounced just like combining and linking the two English words “Mole” and “Let”, and they become “Molet”.
-Molet Khobz means the woman who sells bread.
-Molet Bikala means the woman who owns a bike.
-Molet Madrasa means the woman who owns a school.
If we want to talk about people as a group who sell or own or do the thing, we use the word “Mo’lean”, and it is pronounced just like the name “Mo” and the English word “Lean” when we say them together.
-Mo’lean Khobz means the people who sell the bread.
-Mo’lean BaNan means the people who sell bananas and it could also mean the people who sell all kinds of fruits.
-Mo’lean Att’ Riya means the people who sell spices.
So, whenever you are in Morocco, make sure to pay attention to these words and use them if you can. -
The difference between some and any
“Some” is used before uncountable nouns and plural countable nouns, and it means “a certain number or amount of”. “Some” is used mostly in affirmative sentences and in question when we expect people to say “yes”. For example, in requests and offers.
-Dawya’s got some interesting ideas for our family project. -When Moktar finishes making seed beds in the ground, he has some mud on his boot. -Could I have some Moroccan tea, please? “Sure. And would like some biscuits?”
On the other hand, we use “Any” instead of some in negative sentences, in most questions with “if”, and with words like “never”, “hardly”,“without”, “refute”, “doubt”, which have a negative kind of meaning.
-Hey! Mustapha. Do you know any good jokes?
-If you find any mistakes, please tell me.
-My parents got to Mohammedia without any difficulty.
The difference between “somebody” and “anybody”, “someone” and “anyone”, “something” and “anything” is the same as the difference between “some” and “any”.
-Shush! I think there’s somebody in our garden.
-Does anybody understand the difference between “Coast” and “Shore"?
-Fatima didn’t say anything about the party! Somebody said, “That’s because she wasn’t invited.” -
The circulatory system of trees
When trees transport water, mineral nutrients, and organic substances to all its living tissues, this is called the circulatory system of trees. The circulatory system of trees has two pipelines:
One pipeline, which is called the xylem or sapwood, is responsible of transporting water and nutrients up from the roots to the leaves, whereas the other pipeline, which is known as the phloem or inner bark, focuses on carrying the downward flow of foodstuffs from the leaves to the branches, trunk, and roots. Basically, they are the primary components of the tree’s circulatory system. Another piece of information is that between them there is a single cell layer too thin to be seen by the naked eye called the vascular cambium and it is the tree’s major growth organ that is responsible of the outward widening of the trunk, branches, twigs, and roots. Moreover, during each growing season, the vascular cambium produces new phloem cells on its outer surface and new xylem cells on its inner surface.
From the roots, xylem cells suck water into the tree, taking hydrogen and oxygen and also carrying chemical nutrients from the soil. And then, the xylem pipeline transports all of that as xylem sap all the way from the roots to the leaves. This means that the xylem sap is mainly composed from water. In addition, it flows at rates of 15 meters per hour or faster.
One last piece of information is that when xylem cells cease to function as living sapwood, the dead xylem cells become part of the central column of the heartwood, the supportive of the tree.