Finally it all makes sense to me

I'm often confused by the different ways the MSM will spell one name if its Arabic. Now I understand.

Searching the BBC's vast website for articles about Colonel Gadafy recently, I found just three mentions of his name.

As far as the BBC is concerned, this may be three times too many, since its approved spelling of the Libyan leader's name is "Gaddafi".

Here at the Guardian, on the other hand, our policy is to call him Gadafy - something we have succeeded in doing 325 times on our website.

For good measure, we have also managed to write Gaddafi 42 times, Gadafi eight times, and Gaddafy and Qadhafi twice each.

See, even the professionals have problems. It isn't just my pea-brain.

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