How Many Different Ways Can You Spell “Khadafi?”
ABC News in 2009 posted a list of the many different English spellings of Gaddafi's name.
Because of the difficulty translating Arabic to English, there are several different translations — the Library of Congress lists 72 alternate spellings, and the New York times, Associated Press and Xinhua news sources used 40 additional spellings between 1998 and 2008.