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To: JerseyDvl
By the way, does anyone know which is correct, Osama or Usama? FOX News insists on Usama (FOX: Purported Usama Bin Laden Audiotape Aired) while just about everywhere else it's Osama...
156 posted on 01/19/2006 10:50:31 AM PST by redtetrahedron
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To: redtetrahedron

Sounds like a song...
You say Usama and I say Osama...
You say ur-momma and I say Your Momma...
Usama, Osama... Osama, Usama..
Let's call the whole thing off.....

; )


186 posted on 01/19/2006 11:15:21 AM PST by antceecee (Reagan Democrat and now a Bush Republican...)
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To: redtetrahedron
By the way, does anyone know which is correct, Osama or Usama?
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There is no standard for transliterating from Arabic into English. Think of how may ways there are to render the dictator of Libya's name in English.
So use what you feel like using.
203 posted on 01/19/2006 11:57:05 AM PST by Cheburashka
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