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Originally Posted by bhkad  You say al Qaeda. He says al Queda. Let's snuff the whole thing out. |
When this columnist says Queda, it shows that he gets all his info from Western and pro-crusader sources, and that is incomplete.
Since the word is actually
القاعدة
then if we leave out the definite article, we get a word of 6 letters and 3 syllables
and not 5 letters and 2 syllables.
But since he is a country boy, he thinks the Q must be followed with a U, because that's the way it worked on his farm