To: bk1000
I wrote a letter to editor of my local paper about Obama and ran spell check before I sent it. Box popped up and said Obama not in dictionary, suggested replacement was Osama. I kid you not. My jaw just dropped.
To: Cats Pajamas
LOL! MS Word used to want to correct Taliban as tailbone.
9 posted on
09/10/2008 4:28:24 PM PDT by
bk1000
(A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
To: Cats Pajamas
You know how Arabic words often have two or three different spellings, because of translation from the Arab alphabet? Like: Osama, Usama...or Mohamed and Muhammad...While visiting the Dome of the Rock, I learned that the flying horse, that swept Mohamed up to heaven, was Boraq or Barrack...
I like to think that Barack was named after the flying horse.
Anyway, it is Arabic.
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