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To: hennie pennie

I honestly wasn’t trying to be the spell check police on this thread... I thought you might of had an inside track or source on these kind of things, what with the variance in the spelling. As Freud is reported to have said: sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, so in this case, a mispelled word was just a mispelled word. ;O)


29 posted on 12/11/2009 3:31:20 PM PST by freepersup (!)
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To: freepersup
Yep, it was just misspelled; however, I suspect that there probably are at least half a dozen "real" ways to spell his given name -- doesn't it always seem that way?

For instance, to al Qaida in Paaah-KEE-stan, this man was called "al-Somali" due to his country of origin; but in his birth country I seriously doubt that that was his surname.

It's one of the problems of tracking all this stuff online - first there are legitimate innocent misspellings, but then are so many variations.

I once set up google email news alerts for Doctor Ayman al-Zawahiri, and I had to set up over half a dozen because his nameS - plural, have so many possible spellings.

31 posted on 12/11/2009 3:44:12 PM PST by hennie pennie
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