Mohammed 的詞源

Muhammad 的英語語音轉寫的舊稱。

The worst of letting the learned gentry bully us out of our traditional Mahometan & Mahomet ... is this: no sooner have we tried to be good & learnt to say, or at least write, Mohammed than they are fired with zeal to get us a step or two further on the path of truth, which at present seems likely to end in Muhammad with a dot under the h .... [H.W. Fowler, "A Dictionary of Modern English Usage," 1926]

學識精英讓我們放棄我們傳統的< Mahometan >和< Mahomet >，最糟糕的是：我們剛剛學好，學會說或至少寫作< Mohammed >，他們就熱衷於叫我們在真理之路上向前邁進一兩步，這似乎預示着< Muhammad >的終結，並帶有小圓點....[H.W.福勒，"現代英語用法詞典"，1926年]