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Spectator, The, Mar 9, 2002

Paul Coletti

Edinburgh

Heavenly hostile

From Mr James Young

Sir: Dot Wordsworth (Mind your language, 2 March) is right about the pronunciation of Osama bin Laden's first name. It's Osama, with the stress on the first a, as in what Christians have been singing for centuries: `Osama bin excelsis'.

James Young

London N1

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