Who the hell is Qathafi?

[TheRealEddie]

Ok, so I'm talking about the leader of Libya. That's how google news spelled his name today.

Did a quick search and found this info about how various organizations spell his name:

Qaddhafi (New York Review of Books)
Qaddafi (New Republic)
Gaddafi (Time)
Kaddafi (Newsweek)
Khadafy (Maclean's)
Qadhafi (U.S. News & World Report)
Qadaffi (Business Week)
Gadaffi (World Press Review)
Qadaffi (Business Week),
Gadaffi (World Press Review)
Qathafi (Libya's UN mission)
Qadhdhafi (Library of Congress)

So Oracle, I ask you: Which one is it?

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[A.J.]

All of the above. The problem with Arabic names is that they can be spelled a variety of ways because there is no accepted transliteration system.

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[TheMojoPin]

Same thing with Osama. "Osama bin Laden" seems to have been the one variation finally settled on by "western" media outlets, but for a good year after 9/11 there seemed like there were 4-5 different versions of his name used at any given time.

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[East Side Dave]

"Osama bin Laden" seems to have been the one variation finally settled on by "western" media outlets, but for a good year after 9/11 there seemed like there were 4-5 different versions of his name used at any given time.



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[JustJon]

And let's not forget the spelling issues that let "Yousseff Islam" onto a plane a couple weeks back.

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[TheMojoPin]

So basically, WNEWStinks is the spellchecker of the world.

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