Professor CrescentFresh wrote:
I heard someone on Fox News a few years ago say that his name should really be Usama Bin Laden but other networks changed it to Osama because Usama starts with USA.
That is, and no offense to you, one of the stupidest things I've heard in a while. And I read Forum=28.
The English speaking media plays pretty fast and loose with Arabic names because there's no easy translation. How many spellings of Al'Qeada did we see following 9/11?
It's not a new problem