[Magdalen] RIP Ali, 74.

[Roger Stokes]

On 04/06/2016 23:54, Allan Carr wrote:
> Sorry I misspelled Muhammad Ali's first name. I had it right to begin with,
> but then looked up a news story, probably the only one on the planet that
> had it wrong.

There can be differences in transliterating Arabic to Roman spelling.  
Thank goodness the calls for phonetic spelling of all words has not been 
carried out.  Consider the arguments over how a particular word should 
be pronounced, and hence how it should be spelt.

Roger