Thread: When did osama become usama?
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Old 05-07-2011, 02:16 PM
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It's just difficulties in translation, I believe.

Although, I remember originally it was Usama. Then it quickly changed to Osama (because we simply couldn't have an enemy with a name like USAma). Now it's changed back again because of the similarity to Obama.

It's probably really just because reporters aren't as silver-tongued as they think. Countless flubs of Osama/Obama, whereas it's easier to differentiate Oh-bama and Ooh-sama.
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