Re:Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe
by the-dude on Sunday December 05, 2021 @03:23PM
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I stand corrected, I searched for multiple variants of spelling of Gadaffi. Never seen the Q-variant before.
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Re:Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe
by ragnot on Sunday December 05, 2021 @03:39PM
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It comes from the arabic spelling of Gadaffi: قذافي
The ق at the beginning is a mix between a glottal stop and a k sound (depending on the dialect). There's no real way to spell it in English, hence the variants. This is similar to Osama/Usama (أسامة)