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Mandarin。 But I would vary the use of Zoroaster and Zerdusht; as
I drew my information from Greece or Persia: since our connection
with India; the genuine Timour is restored to the throne of
Tamerlane: our most correct writers have retrenched the Al; the
superfluous article; from the Koran; and we escape an ambiguous
termination; by adopting Moslem instead of Musulman; in the
plural number。 In these; and in a thousand examples; the shades
of distinction are often minute; and I can feel; where I cannot
explain; the motives of my choice。