[wdvltalk-social] she's back

David Blakey davidblakey at gmail.com
Tue Dec 4 09:29:17 GMT 2007


>And Joseph, just to split hairs, the kid and bear's name was 
>Muhammed, not Mohammed, is this  a
>legitimate point?

No.  The vowel in Arabic is somewhere between 'u' and 'o', and 
Anglicizations can take either form.  The most common Anglicization 
in the Arab world (but I can't speak for the entire Muslim world) is 
probably 'Muhammad'.

Regards,
David



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