(1) I stayed with a middle-class Cairene family, comfortably off but not rich, whose daily life is a struggle against the heat, the dust, the noise, the traffic, and the lack of privacy.(2) This implies that the linguistic behavior of Cairene women is less ‘conservative’ than men, a finding that corroborates findings of previous studies across the Arab world.(3) Chapter two gives a detailed description of the methodology used in sampling the Cairene speech community.(4) Almost all Cairene homes, I discover, are flats.(5) The non-classical standard, or urban Cairene , on the other hand, draws its dominance and prestige from its association with the social dialect of urban, upper class social groups.
