Khashoggi

After weeks of uncertainty, newsreaders seem to have settled for pronouncing the name as Kashodji. Never mind about the KH, which is basically like the CH in Scottish 'loch'; the real problem is with the GG, in which the first consonant is the gutteral Q, which few Westerners ever master, and the second is pronounced J in most Arabic dialects, but G in Lower Egypt. None of which is going to bring the poor man back to life or even discover his remains! q