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Why is this Dictator's name so dang hard to spell?

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  1. pippo

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    #1 pippo, Aug 25, 2011
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    Geez, it was so easy to spell Hitler, or Stalin, or heck, even Mussolini. But dang, try to figure how to spell Kadaffy, or is it Ghaddafi, or wait, maybe its Qaddafi???!

    Theres more- even Gheddafi, Gaddafi, Khadafi, on and on. News reporters cant figure it out , and it should be their job.

    Pol Pot, Pinochet, Idi Amin, easy to spell names of Tyrant Zealots.............
     
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    #2 willrace, Aug 25, 2011
    Daffy. . . . as in Duck.

    Done. :p
     
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    #3 UroTrash, Aug 25, 2011
    No matter.

    He will always remain my favorite Ruthless Dictator of all times.

    No one ever wore a dashiki and African gold bedazzaled muu-muu like The Daffy.
     
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    #4 wax, Aug 25, 2011
    Reading Ron would be able to explain it
     
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    #5 Jedi, Aug 25, 2011
    It's because it's not spelled in English. It's spelled in Arabic and the English
    transliteration is just a phonic approximation of the sound it would make in Arabic.

    Jedi
     
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    #6 pippo, Aug 27, 2011
    OK, kinda like how the English appropriated the spelling of Beijing as Peking? Mumbai as Bombay? Still, I dont get it. The guy's apparently bigger than life if his name can adopt endless spellings, I guess.
     
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    #7 wax, Aug 27, 2011
    ^Borrrriiiiiiiiiing threadkill answer.
     
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    #8 zygomatic, Aug 27, 2011
    Shouldn't it be easier to spell if you can pretty much throw out any of a good dozen or so spellings and claim yours is 'right'... or at least as wrong as the others?
     
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    #9 zygomatic, Aug 27, 2011

    So, basically, "Derka, Derka, Allah, Muhammad, Jihad, Derka Derka"?
     
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