[Ads-l] "goal" or "gaol"?

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 11:38 PM, Douglas G. Wilson <douglas at nb.net> wrote:

> Several years ago when searching for something including the word
> "pharaoh" I noticed a very large number of instances of "pharoah". Maybe
> the sequence "ao" tends to look 'wrong' to the Anglo eye somehow.
>

You're not the first to notice, Doug.


Headline: "Yes, American Pharoah's name is spelled wrong"

http://goo.gl/TTQ61Q

And there's the jazz saxophonist, Pharoah Sanders.
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-Wilson
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