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Originally Posted by chaotic-nipple
Clarification: It's not that the spelling 'Mecca' is "evil", it's that it's phonetically inaccurate according to current standards for transcription Arabic words with Roman letters. A native English speaker with no knowledge of Arabic will probably pronounce that spelling as "MECK-uh", as opposed to the more accurate "Ma-KAH".
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Yes, but most English-speakers would still pronounce Mekkah as 'MECK-uh.'