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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.


8 posted on 09/10/2008 4:23:12 PM PDT by Cats Pajamas
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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)
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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.
11 posted on 09/10/2008 4:50:29 PM PDT by Eagletest
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