Mohammed 的词源

这是Muhammad的传统英语音译。

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]

让知识分子逼迫我们放弃传统的Mahometan和Mahomet，最糟糕的地方在于：我们一旦努力做到正确，学会了说，或者至少写Mohammed，他们就热衷于再让我们在真理的道路上更进一步，而这条路目前看起来很可能最终会以Muhammad（h下方有点）的形式结束…… [H.W. Fowler, "A Dictionary of Modern English Usage," 1926]