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Tony Walton
 
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On 2004-06-20 22:08:01 +0100, Katra > said:
> And he does not know how to spell "Muslim".....


To be fair (and Bog knows why), that'd be a transliteration from
Arabic, so just about any Roman alphabet vowel would do (Moslem,
Muslem, Moslim, Moslem, Muslim...). It's interesting to read UK
newspaper transliterations of the name of the ruler of Libya - the
righter-wing the newspaper, the sillier-looking (in English) the name.
So the (extreme left wing) Morning Star might say "Qudaffi" (which
looks "authentic") but the (right-wing) Teleraph says "Gadaffy", which
just looks silly.

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Tony (still awaiting a response to my complaint to )