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in reply to a message by morfydd
Well, that is novel! I'm tempted to suggest that the civil servant wrote down a sound of blank bewilderment, mistaking it for a word ... but it's more likely that he's just left out the vowels in good Semitic fashion. But I've never heard the like ... except that when I was growing up in Cape Town there were hundreds of local Moslem guys named Mohammed and it was regularly shortened to Gamat or Gammat (with the G, as they say, like the ch in loch). Perhaps there's a bit missing?
Would it be possible to ask him, and then let us know? I'd be fascinated.
Would it be possible to ask him, and then let us know? I'd be fascinated.
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I'm not in direct contact with him, but his name is actually printed like that on a report about pensions. Councillor Gmmh Rahman Khan. And it's printed three times over, so there's no spelling mistake. It occurred to me that it could be an honorific title, like Hajji, but I don't think that it would be accepted as appropriate for a local councillor to bear such a title like that in a multicultural society. Your suggestion about the shortened form is intriguing. I'd really like to get to the bottom of this.
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