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112 ways to spell Qaddaffi,No matter how you spell his name he is Kaput
ABC ^ | September 20, 2009 | ABC

Posted on 10/20/2011 12:43:13 PM PDT by SMGFan

I searched online for this -

But politics aside, we've come across a list of the many different English spellings of Gaddafi's name. Because of the difficulty translating Arabic to English, there are several different translations — the Library of Congress lists 72 alternate spellings, and the New York times, Associated Press and Xinhua news sources used 40 additional spellings between 1998 and 2008.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: qaddaffi
112 Ways to spell his name.
1 posted on 10/20/2011 12:43:20 PM PDT by SMGFan
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To: SMGFan

He is now Qadeadi.......


2 posted on 10/20/2011 12:46:02 PM PDT by Red Badger (Obama's number one economics advisor must be a Magic Eight Ball.................)
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To: SMGFan
Wikipedia:

Signature:


3 posted on 10/20/2011 12:48:43 PM PDT by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
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To: ctdonath2

That signature looks like a side view of Bill Clinton’s nose.


4 posted on 10/20/2011 12:56:21 PM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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To: SMGFan

Perhaps his strange behavior was tied to Ortographobia.


5 posted on 10/20/2011 12:56:46 PM PDT by dblshot (Insanity: electing the same people over and over and expecting different results.)
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To: ctdonath2
Cecil Adams - the Straight Dope: How are you supposed to spell Muammar Gaddafi/Khadafy/Qadhafi?

(from 1986)

6 posted on 10/20/2011 12:58:04 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: SMGFan

I have no regard for the sob but what I saw was a helpless, beaten old man murdered in the street.

Were going to cheer this? It’s unseemly.

Next, the drive by’s will be cheerleading when the Stinkpotty’s drag the media whores out of their ivory towers, knock all their teeth out and shoot them in the head?

It’s rather uncivilized an unChristian. Were behaving like THEM.


7 posted on 10/20/2011 12:58:43 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever.)
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To: Red Badger

He’ll soon be: Bin Laden Torest


8 posted on 10/20/2011 1:04:27 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: SMGFan

I say “Khaddafy”, and you say “Qadaffi” — let’s call the old guy offed...


9 posted on 10/20/2011 1:08:26 PM PDT by mikrofon (He's no Mo-mer)
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10 posted on 10/20/2011 1:35:56 PM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: SMGFan
112 ways to spell Qaddaffi

(With apologies to Paul Simon)

Leave out the K, Ray
Put in a Q, Lou
Double the D, Lee
Put in an AL, Hal
Stick in an EL, Mel
It ends in a Y, Guy
It ends with an I, Cy
Replace MO with MU, Stu
Change MU back to MO, Joe
Whatever! He's dead, Fred

11 posted on 10/20/2011 1:48:09 PM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree ("Nanny Care State" is not a Division 3 football powerhouse.)
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