A fact from Afif al-Bizri appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 January 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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The references in the article spell this man's name "al-Bizreh." Is there a reason for using a different spelling in the article? Rlendog (talk) 20:31, 3 January 2012 (UTC)Reply
The classic Arabic pronunciation of the name is Bizri. Bizreh is the colloquial pronunciation of the name in Levantine Arabic accent. While the two sources provided (they are by the same author, hence the same spelling) use this one, most other sources (which I couldn't use because they don't go into that much detail) use the "Bizri" spelling. "al-Bizreh" returns 5 results on Google Books, while "Afif al-Bizri" returns 3000+. Yazan (talk) 21:25, 3 January 2012 (UTC)Reply
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