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How do you spell Guh-DAH-fee?

Gadafi

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Gadafy - (as used by the Guardian and the Irish Times)

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Gaddafi - (used by most British newspapers)

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Gadaffi - (as used by the Financial Times, and currently by a lot of US papers)

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Ghadaffy - (as used by London's Evening Standard, although not for long)

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Gadhafi - (as used by the Wall Street Journal, and more popular in US papers back in the day)

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Ghaddafi

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Ghaddafy

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Gheddafi

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Kadafi - (as used by the Los Angeles Times)

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Kaddafi - (as used by Newsweek)

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Kazzafi

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Khaddafi

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Khaddaffy

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Qadafi

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Qaddafi - (as used by the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Economist and the New Yorker)

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Qadhdhafi

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Qadhdhaafiy

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Qathafi

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Q'udafi

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Qudhafi

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Kadaffy Duck

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Edgy DC Feb 22 2011 10:28 AM

He's been in power for 42 years and has yet to achieve a standardized spelling of his name nor a passable moustache.

Benjamin Grimm Feb 22 2011 10:34 AM Re: How do you spell Guh-DAH-fee?

In the 1980's, when I first became aware of him, it was generally a K spelling... Khadafy, I think was most common. The Q came later and then the G, if I'm remembering correctly.

seawolf17 Feb 22 2011 10:36 AM Re: How do you spell Guh-DAH-fee?

Benjamin Grimm wrote: In the 1980's, when I first became aware of him, it was generally a K spelling... Khadafy, I think was most common. The Q came later and then the G, if I'm remembering correctly. I feel like I first remember it like that too, but with an "i"... "Khadafi."

Valadius Feb 22 2011 10:37 AM Re: How do you spell Guh-DAH-fee?

You left out the way I spell it - Qadhafi.

metirish Feb 22 2011 10:40 AM Re: How do you spell Guh-DAH-fee?

Reuters uses more than one spelling look at the main article then at Related News section, 2nd one in list http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/ ... A620110222

metirish Feb 22 2011 10:43 AM Re: How do you spell Guh-DAH-fee?

NY Times goes with Muammar el-Qaddafi I think I would go with the K version and most definitely not the Irish Times version , which may well be taken from Reuters .

TransMonk Feb 22 2011 10:55 AM Re: How do you spell Guh-DAH-fee?

Khadafi

John Cougar Lunchbucket Feb 22 2011 11:02 AM Re: How do you spell Guh-DAH-fee?

g-e-n-e s-i-m-m-o-n-s

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Feb 22 2011 11:03 AM Re: How do you spell Guh-DAH-fee? Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Feb 22 2011 11:08 AM

Yes. More specifically... I keep thinking of Fred Armisen's creepy Gene impression on SNL. Moammar el-Qaddafi. It's the way I learned it as a kid (probably from the Paper of Record). Also, it's so exotic.

Benjamin Grimm Feb 22 2011 11:06 AM Re: How do you spell Guh-DAH-fee?

I'd love to have a photo of me like this:

Ashie62 Feb 22 2011 11:20 AM Re: How do you spell Guh-DAH-fee?

After 42 years you would think he would have been promoted from Colonel to General.

Benjamin Grimm Feb 22 2011 11:35 AM Re: How do you spell Guh-DAH-fee?

Harlan Sanders has been waiting even longer.

Willets Point Feb 22 2011 11:40 AM Re: How do you spell Guh-DAH-fee?

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Harlan Sanders has been waiting even longer. That's because General Tso refuses to retire.

metirish Feb 22 2011 11:44 AM Re: How do you spell Guh-DAH-fee?

I once worked with a guy whose name was General Lee , a black guy no less.

Willets Point Feb 22 2011 11:48 AM Re: How do you spell Guh-DAH-fee?

Back in the 80's, I liked to read Time magazine and they always spelled it Gaddafi. That spelling kind of stuck with me.

Benjamin Grimm Feb 22 2011 12:26 PM Re: How do you spell Guh-DAH-fee?

I'll have to try to find the Christmas cards he's sent me over the years to see how he himself spells it.

Frayed Knot Feb 22 2011 12:43 PM Re: How do you spell Guh-DAH-fee?

I think the SNL skit from many moons ago used a 'Q' as that was the pattern stitched onto the back pocket of Qaddafy Jeans

seawolf17 Feb 22 2011 01:14 PM Re: How do you spell Guh-DAH-fee?

Willets Point wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: Harlan Sanders has been waiting even longer. That's because General Tso refuses to retire. That made me laugh.

Willets Point Feb 22 2011 01:30 PM Re: How do you spell Guh-DAH-fee?

I'm your one-stop source for military officer/poultry humor.

dgwphotography Feb 22 2011 07:23 PM Re: How do you spell Guh-DAH-fee?

It's Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka!

Fman99 Feb 22 2011 07:37 PM Re: How do you spell Guh-DAH-fee?

Look, it's the Arabian Bob Dylan!

Nymr83 Feb 22 2011 07:44 PM Re: How do you spell Guh-DAH-fee?

I'd like to spell it D-E-P-O-S-E-D

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Feb 22 2011 07:58 PM Re: How do you spell Guh-DAH-fee?

Look, it's the Polyphonic Political-Opponent-Murder Spree!

Edgy DC Feb 22 2011 08:48 PM Re: How do you spell Guh-DAH-fee?

I begged Scott Baio not to take that internship.

seawolf17 Feb 23 2011 08:04 AM Re: How do you spell Guh-DAH-fee?

"We're gonna put Libya on everything. Libya M&Ms, Libya coffins, Libya toilet paper."

metirish Feb 23 2011 02:41 PM Re: How do you spell Guh-DAH-fee?

The Irish Times weighs in http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/wor ... ml?via=rel

Willets Point Feb 26 2011 07:20 AM Re: How do you spell Guh-DAH-fee?

Someone else who's going to have to explain his collaboration with Gaddafi in the 80's: Doc Brown. [youtube:1hjw2c6a]NDS81Ibazdk[/youtube:1hjw2c6a]

RealityChuck Feb 27 2011 08:06 PM Re: How do you spell Guh-DAH-fee?

Since he spells his name Moammar El-Gadhafi, that's the correct form.