Saravasti

[Doug Ewell]

James Kass wrote:

> [as a generalization...]
> It is a wise list moderator who understands that not everybody can
> spell well.

Especially when the spelling in question is a transliteration.

I have a relative who likes to point out that their name has "the biblical spelling," the one that appears in the KJV, not the spelling used today in most English-speaking contexts. This is in spite of the fact that all such spellings are transliterations from 6th-century BCE Hebrew, which had different phonology from modern English.

Both spellings are, of course, "correct," especially when you consider that nearly anything goes when it comes to personal names.

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