"wife and three children of Qaddafi enter Algeria, Government says..."
Quote from Reuters:
"Libya rebels say will seek extradition of Gaddafi Family from Algeria..."
Quote from the Irish Times:
"Gadafy loyalists urged to fight on..."
I am definitely "confused.com"!! Are these three reputable news publications talking about the same person, there couldn't be three of him, could there? Or have their 'spelling' editors all gone for a tea break??
So being curious as I am. I googled the spelling to see who was right.. And to my surprise, they all are! Apparently it is estimated that there are 112 way of spelling his name, jeez, just as well there aren't 112 of him! The spell checker seems to like the Qaddafi version the best, so does that put the NYT out in front?
Anyway, it make me think about my own name, Siobhan (pronounced Shove-on). There are a couple of 'correct' ways to spell my name too (does that make me like Gaddafi, Gadafy, or Qaddafi, Yikes!!!).
Siob̊an (old Irish spelling, the dot over the 'b' because they didn't have a 'h' in their alphabet)
Siobhán (the proper Irish spelling with a 'fada' over the a)
Siobhan (the most widely used version)
There you go, a bit of useless information for you, unless you know a few Siobhan's that you want to impress!!
I just use the more common/modern way Siobhan! But never mind the spelling, you should hear how some people pronounce my name. The funniest example being the Koreans that I used to work with who called me Cy-O-Ban!
You should have hear what I called them (when they were out of ear shot of course!!). :)
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