Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is in the minority in its spelling, notes readers’ rep Deirdre Edgar. “The winner in Google hits? Wikipedia’s spelling: Muammar al-Gaddafi.” (Related letter after the jump.)
Romenesko Letters
From DENNIS PERSICA: The LAT Kadafi story, and the various spellings in the news media, reminds me of one of the National Lampoon newspaper parodies of a couple of decades ago. Not the famous “Dacron, Ohio” one; this one was later. The lead story was about Kadafi, and his name was spelled differently in each subsequent reference, using all of the popular variants: Qaddafi, Gaddafi, etc.
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