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goldleaf
3rd March 2011, 07:54 AM
Everytime I turn on a different news channel I'm shown a different spelling of Libya's leader.
It used to be Ghadaffi, didn't it? Now I'm seeing, Kadaffy, Gadaffi, Qadafi, you name it, not that its
that important, but I suspect that these spellers are a product of our public school system and its
poor underpaid teachers. Another one is Mao Tse Tung, I've seen that recently spelled Mao Zedong
and other ways. ::)

tater
3rd March 2011, 08:14 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong

...Mao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung...

I believe you're correct on Ghadaffi though. I googled ghadaffi and I got this. :D

Did you mean: gaddafi