re: abbas/shahi Hi, Florian. Nina mentioned twice they are coins, I am guessing named after the rulers they featured. Which makes sense in the examples INTRODUCTION p 22 or GENDER p. 7. Other sentences are confusing since they reference births and deaths. At first I was puzzled by the non human agreement in the example on GENDER p. 13 (your abbas is dead), since I assumed Abbas was a person in that example, but I am guessing it is still a coin and it is being anthropomorphised, as in the example INTRODUCTION p. 13 (your abbas gave birth to a shahi), a shahi being worth a quarter abbasi (from what I gather from a quick search). Just guessing, of course. HTH