--- "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
wrote: > Andrew Dunbar wrote:

> >
> > --- "Peter T. Daniels"
> <grammatim@...>
>
> > > As for Mr. Hussein's forename, "Sodom" is a
> > > fairly good approximation for those unfamiliar
> > > with consonant length. If the middle consonant
> > > is a Dad, then "Sodom" is better than Bush 41's
> > > "Saddm."
> > > (So if you can find it written in Arabic script
> > > for me, I'll let you know.)
> >
> > At the risk of upsetting the 8-bit email gods,
> > it's "ÕÏÇã ÍÓíä" in Arabic which, using
> > Unicode's names for Arabic letters
> > is "sad.dal.alef.meem hah.seen.yeh.noon"
> >
> > Finding the version with vowels may be trickier...
>
> The only remaining question is whether there's a
> shadda on the dal, and that would probably have
> appeared in a consonantal text.

Yes there is a shadda on the dal in Saddam, there's
not one on the seen in Hussein: "ÕÏøÇã ÍÓíä".

Andrew Dunbar.

> --
> Peter T. Daniels
> grammatim@...
>

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