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krisalyssa t1_j9dwh6w wrote

Reply to comment by M8asonmiller in eli5 how do people with names that use non-english characters decide the spelling of their romanized name? by [deleted]

That was something that annoyed me in the pilot episode of The West Wing. One of the characters is loudly complaining that the New York Times crossword puzzle misspelled the name of the Libyan leader at the time, Muammar Gaddafi. Unless you’re writing it in Arabic script, there is no one right spelling.

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