Usama Vs. Osama: The Truth at last

[rtwngAvngr]

Is it Usama or Osama? And why?

 

[Annie]

Is it Usama or Osama? And why?

Most reasonable I found. Seems there was a 'Fox' conspiracy floating around, that they were using USAma, to reinforce the USA dominance

http://66.218.69.11/search/cache?p=...+osama+spelling&d=SV5A80aqMiWy&icp=1&.intl=us

Those are two separate questions, and I won't give my opinion of Fox
News. But I will try to explain the Osama versus Usama issue. Arabic, like
Hebrew and Chinese, has sounds for which there is no English
equivalent. For years, there was a question about the Jewish holiday that
comes in December-- is it spelled Hanukkah, Chanukah, or what? Ditto for
China's big city-- is it Beiping, Beijing, or some other permutation? The
Holy Koran, the Muslim bible, does not begin with a K in Arabic, but
rather, with a Q. Since in English, the Q sounds like "kw", we turned the
first letter of their bible into a K. And now we have the same spelling
problem with whether it should be Osama or Usama. The truth lies somewhere
in the middle-- the sound that begins the man's name is somewhere between
an O and a U, and I gather than some media, trying to transliterate it,
chose the O, while others chose the U.

 

[tim_duncan2000]

Osama. I don't want that bastard's nam to start USA.

 

[theHawk]

His real name is Usāmah bin Muhammad bin 'Awad bin Lādin.

 

[Abbey Normal]

Barack Ubama or Barack Obama? :teeth:


Derwood Kirby or Kirwood Derby?

 

[archangel]

His real name is Usāmah bin Muhammad bin 'Awad bin Lādin.

the use of the term OBL was used by intel to embarrass UBL...or so the rumor goes...they joked about 'Oh Bin Laden' thus OBL!

 

[Said1]

It's O'Samma. He's really an Irishmen.