When I went looking for the derivation of that delicious line "She who must be obeyed" (from Rumpole of the Bailey, one of my most-favorite-ever television series), I ran across this:
http://www.violetbooks.com/haggard-ayesha.html
and this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_(novel) "The title is short for She Who Must Be Obeyed, a translation of the Arabic honorific used for Ayesha by the Amahagger, a tribe whom she has enslaved."
Learn something new every day...
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