The sweet arithmetic of Erfoud
October in Erfoud is a counting exercise with dates on tin scales. Numbers, dirhams, rials and a meeting time that drifts by forty minutes.
October brings the date harvest to Erfoud and turns the desert town into one long counting exercise. Vendors stack sticky pyramids of bronze Majhoul dates onto creaking tin scales. Numbers fly between dirhams, rials and meeting times that drift by a gentle forty minutes. Sharpen your digits before you go, and pay the price you meant to pay.
Words from this week
- t-talt (التالت): third
- r-rab3 (الرابع): fourth
- l-5ams (الخامس): fifth
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