[AnnaZ]

While I'm taking up pixels ranting about peeves, could we also stop posting anything from the New York Times? They just plain suck.

= )

[AnnaZ]

Now it's really off my chest.

;^)

[Defiant]

Actually, I think it's probably spelled and pronounced correctly. Arabic is very weird. When words have different tenses and meanings, they don't change the ending of the word, they change sounds in the beginning and middle. Thus, Islam and Muslim. The word is -sl-m, the parts where the dashes are determine the meaning, gender, number and so on.

So, Allah, or the word for their moon god, whose forms are variations of -lah, when followed by the hezbo part of hezbollah, might just be lah. An Arabic speaker could verify.

[Eastbound]

Righto! But I call 'em all 'Hezzians' -- Islamic mercenaries who fight on behalf of all the Islamofascists against all non-Islamics. After the fashion of the German "Hessians" who fought for Britain against the Colonists during the Revolutionary War.

[La Enchiladita]

Ban the Slimes and the WayPOOO.

Sick o' da crap, too.

[backhoe]

Hezbo'Allah

When I point that out to people, it's like a little light bulb goes off in their heads-- "now I get it..."

[madison10]

I used the Jerusalem Post, thought they'd know. Last spelling I saw there was: Hezb'allah.

[Xenalyte]

It's probably a result of sloppy speech spilling over into writing.

The best example I can think of would be the romance languages - how you can take a word that ends with E and one that begins with E and elide them together, so "de ella" would be "d'ella" and eventually "della."

[Xenalyte]

FWIW, it's still pronounced in a way to make you happy - "hez-bawl-ah."

I've never heard anyone say "hez-bowl-ah."

[demkicker]

EVEN THIS?