Swing also apparently has a plural sultanate, as there are also Sultans of Swing. Apparently, according to anecdotal evidence, the Sultans played Creole…
Seeing as how Gen. Pervez Musharraf dissolved the Pakistani parliament as part of his coup in October 1999, it would seem the Swat nobility continue to get the short end of the stick.
Your proper response, Dr. F, ought to have been "Peccavi…
which, as everyone knows, means “I have Sind.” (It’s southeast of Swat.)
lovely place. At least it was 30 years ago when I lived there. It’s kind of located in hardcore islamic fundamentalist territory at the moment.
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I guess that’s where those teenaged girls “Swat Valley High” novels take place.
Of course, there, girls aren’t allowed to learn how to read…