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Old 04-01-2003   #21
Almighty Colin
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Interesting thing about anglicized spellings of Middle-Eastern country names and Arabic names in general. There are different phonetic schemes for translating Arabic into English.

So Iraq can also be Irak
Osama can be Usama
al-Qaeda can be al-Kaeda



Last edited by Colin at Apr 1 2003, 08:59 AM
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