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Osama vs Usama, How Do You Spell It?
The Looking Spoon ^ | 5-7-11 | Jared H. McAndersen

Posted on 05/07/2011 4:16:28 PM PDT by The Looking Spoon

For all these years we've been told it's "Osama," like he's part Irish. Now I've been seeing Fox News (and other news sources I'm sure) using "Usama." I've had a friend on Facebook ask me what the proper spelling is. Apparently it's both, so I devised a way to help people figure out which version should be used.

I call this piece "The Ubama Bunch."


TOPICS: Humor; Politics
KEYWORDS: demotivation; humor; osama; osamabinladen; pakistan; pockeestahn; satire; tomahto; tomayto; usama
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1 posted on 05/07/2011 4:16:33 PM PDT by The Looking Spoon
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To: The Looking Spoon

I went to Wikipedia just this morning to see how old he was (born 1957), and there was a paragraph about all the many spellings......turns out “Osama” is the preferred among mohammedans.


2 posted on 05/07/2011 4:19:00 PM PDT by ErnBatavia (It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
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To: The Looking Spoon

I’m sure that Obama would rather that it be spelled “Usama.” The media who push that spelling are probably trying to do Obama a favor.


3 posted on 05/07/2011 4:19:20 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: The Looking Spoon

My wife and I noticed it too...clearly they did this to “protect” Obama from being confused with Osama.


4 posted on 05/07/2011 4:19:24 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: Brilliant

To me this just proves what an awful candidate the GOP put up against Obama. On name alone we should have been able to beat Obama. In an election year that we are in a war against terror and it’s leader is Osama Bin Ladin and another war where the leader is Saddam Huesin...we go and vote in Barrack Hussein Obama.

Come on...that alone should have turned off the American public. McCain was that bad of a candidate.


5 posted on 05/07/2011 4:22:25 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: ErnBatavia

Good to know. So you’re saying we should use Usama then?

:-)


6 posted on 05/07/2011 4:22:34 PM PDT by The Looking Spoon
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To: The Looking Spoon

There is no standard transliteration rules from Arabic to Roman alphabets. English, French, German, Dutch, and likely more have their own conventions and aren’t necessarily consistent within themselves.


7 posted on 05/07/2011 4:22:53 PM PDT by kevkrom ("Winning The Future" = WTF = What The F*** / "Kinetic Military Action" = KMA = Kiss My A**)
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To: for-q-clinton

I believe it is currently ‘Flotsama’.


8 posted on 05/07/2011 4:23:03 PM PDT by He Rides A White Horse ((unite))
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To: The Looking Spoon

Z E R O


10 posted on 05/07/2011 4:23:24 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: The Looking Spoon
"Osama vs Usama, How Do You Spell It?"

DEAD

11 posted on 05/07/2011 4:23:49 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: The Looking Spoon

LOL...
For those who want the answer, technically both are correct because Arabic doesn’t use the same alphabet. If you want to be “by the book”, the academic spelling is Usama because there is no equivalent to “O” in Arabic. However, with most Arabic words translated, phonetic spellings are correct. It is the same issue with the spelling of Koran/Qu’ran.


12 posted on 05/07/2011 4:24:52 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: for-q-clinton

Yes, and we’re going to do it again in 2012.


13 posted on 05/07/2011 4:24:52 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: The Looking Spoon
You say 'Usama', I say 'Osama'
you say 'Ubama', I say 'Obama'
Usama, Osama, Ubama, Obama,
Let play a round of golf, and
lets call the whole thing off!
14 posted on 05/07/2011 4:25:27 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: The Looking Spoon

“Osama vs Usama, How Do You Spell It?”

D E D


15 posted on 05/07/2011 4:25:27 PM PDT by MestaMachine (If you want to pillage,plunder,destroy, blaspheme,or defile, become a muslim, or name yourself obama)
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To: The Looking Spoon

A lot of people have noticed that Osama is now Usama. I have had a few people ask me about that. I think that the Obama Admin suggested to the media that they use Usama instead of Osama so it doesn’t sound like Obama.


16 posted on 05/07/2011 4:26:53 PM PDT by KansasGirl
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To: The Looking Spoon

What about Ubama. He has done more damage to our nation then any out sider could ever do.


17 posted on 05/07/2011 4:27:02 PM PDT by just me (Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. (John Adams)
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To: Brilliant

The lapdog media suddenly started spelling it with a ‘U’ to prevent accidentally saying Osama instead of Obama.
Didn’t help much. Plenty of newscasters said Osama when they meant Obama. LOL


18 posted on 05/07/2011 4:28:24 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: The Looking Spoon

I prefer Ubama.


19 posted on 05/07/2011 4:30:58 PM PDT by razorback-bert (Some days it's not worth chewing through the straps.)
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To: Brilliant

Exactly as it’s too close to his name.


20 posted on 05/07/2011 4:32:02 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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