8 ~ Wednesday, April-30, 1986 -

North Shore News

Doug Collins

© get this straight ©

YouR. MAN Doug frequently has to account for his
- words, you may, be pleased to hear. Thus, only the other
. day, Barrett Fisher -- the only beauteous news editor 1 have

: ever met -- challenged me over the’ spelling of “Gadaffi’’. ‘

: You know, that man in Libya. ©

7 “Why - do! you | ‘spell ‘it that
- way?” ‘she asked. ‘It should be
--spelt with a ‘K’. But. we. didn’t
+ changeit.’ (Collins has been
? known to sulk over such trifles.)
“A told her why. She then took
me by the ‘hand, :sort of, and
steered me into another office.
There,:1. offered my infallible
“reasoning to. another. nice lady
“who had denounced me to Barrett
as: being ‘unable to spell. (The
North: Shore : News. is full of
omen; not all of whom pursue
me for peaceful purposes. Not too
1: was: practically

assaulted: by a fem ‘from: South
Africa-who assured me in trembl-
ing tones a Iwas not qualified

without some Moslem fanatic
stuffing a bomb in your ear.

The New' York Times and the
: Washington Post use Qaddafi.

- Associated Press prefers
Khadafy. So do the Toronto Star
and the Vancouver Sun.
> » Reuter, the British news agen-
cy, likes Gaddafi rather than

+Gadaffi. (You can go cross-eyed

‘detecting these differences. Also
crazy.)

*,.The U.K.’s Observer, saying to
rell with everybody, no doubt,
‘spells the name Qadhafi, But the
French-language press in Quebec
is in love with Kadhafi. (In a man-

“rier, of speaking, that is.).

‘There’s more.
‘According to. ‘Associate Foreign
Editor. Patrick’ Martin’ of the

“Globe and’ Mail, from whom I

d earning

ve scalped most of this infor-
mation, the Department of Exter-
al

snalAffairs also uses Khadafy. In:
Or Wa, that is. But the-depart- _.

nt’s own Middle East bureau
tates that the official way to ad-
ess the man | call Gadaffi is
adhafi. -Which would make the

‘Libya’s Permanent Mission to
the UN spells its S boss's Ss name this

Q-A-T-H-A-F-I
The trouble seems to be that

there's no equivalent in English |

for certain sounds in Arabic, :

especially G, K, etc. But we won’t
go into that because I wouldn't
know what I am talking about, as
the woman from South Africa.
would say.

If L-had my way I’d shorten the:

Name to "Daffy (note the subtle

apostrophe) and anyone who.

didn’t follow suit would get daily

‘exercise on the old ball and chain.

This world could do with a little
discipline.

-No matter which way you spell
it, though, the name still means J-.°
E-R-K.

Glad to have been of help,
Barrett.

xk k& *

Did -you notice how Daffy:

treated the visiting Western media -

once they had served their pur- :

pose? What a laugh.
They were taken under escort to
al the sights he wanted them to see

and report on — hospitals, wail-:

ing infants, bombed houses and.

all that. Then all 250 of them were. |
told to bog off home. ‘‘Your mis-*

sion. is “completed,’”’ they were”,
informed.

. The Germans have a proverb
for that sort of thing.

“The Moor.has done. his duty. ©

The Moor can go.’’

wv -lf the South’ Africans had tu

‘ed out. the media like that there
would have been big black
headlines. From ’Daffy, such

~; Stuff-is taken-without,a whimper

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