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easy_rider911 said:
But that's only because the letter P doesn't exist in Arabic so the letter B is used for both P and B. So, for example, you drink Bebsi whereas we drink Pepsi

BTW, the letter P does exist in Persian and Urdu...



And another thing, WHY are Arabic speakers unable (or are they just unwilling) to pronounce the P sound just because the letter P doesn't exist in Arabic. That has never made sense to me. I guess the only explanation must be again that the Arabic speakers have effectively created their own word substituting the letter B for the letter P.

In English, we don't have a letter like KH (in Arabic, pronounced 'kheh') but we are still perfectly happy to pronounce it the way it is pronounced in Arabic.