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To: najida

"shmael is also a character in Moby Dick and if the guy was an English major, that’s another possibility."

TRue, but why use the Muslim version spelling of the Hebrew spelling?

60 posted on 04/17/2007 9:10:03 AM PDT by Texas_shutterbug

To: Texas_shutterbug

Because he HAS to be a Muslim (or folks at FR will be totally miserable).

;)

72 posted on 04/17/2007 9:13:03 AM PDT by najida (Just call me a chicken rancher :))

To: Texas_shutterbug

Just point of information: The Hebrew for Ismail or Ishmael is, phonetically spelled: Yishmael. First letter is a “yud” which is pronounced like Y.

244 posted on 04/17/2007 10:11:31 AM PDT by JewishRighter

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