How do you spell the name of the main Muslim holy book?

[Deep13]

Poll question: How do you spell the name of the main Muslim holy book?

Quran? Qaran? Qu'uran? Koran?

[TZ]

1. I"ll ask my African Muslim coworker...

what the correct English spelling is. He's quite fluent in English and French along with a local dialect.

[TZ]

4. He says that Qu'ran or Quran are the correct spelling

Koran is the phoentic translation of it.

[Deep13]

5. I'll go without the apostrophe.

In the '80s it seemed like Koran was the accepted spelling. Now it seems to have swung back to the more traditional Quran.

[old mark]

2. Any way you want - it was not written in the English alphabet, but in Arabic, which

means that the English spellings are more or less subjective according to convertion.


So there.

mark

[yawnmaster]

3. who gets to define the english spelling of a word, when it uses characters...

foreign to english and the english spelling is therefore phonetic?
not fully a rhetorical question either. Its interesting to see accepted spellings for other similar cases.

[KamaAina]

6. Them Mooslims don't have a holy book!

You were trying to trick us, weren't you?

:sarcasm:

[Deep13]

8. Awww, yah got me!

Obviously, the REAL gawd speaks in English to white people, but only if they hate gays a whole lot!

Actually, I don't think anyone really has a holy book.

[Taverner]

7. It's KOH-ran

:P

[Kali]

9. I have a bias for K's

:P