Arabic in general is hard to transliterate properly, especially vowels, f.ex. I noticed 3 versions of Muscat used interchangely - Moscat, Muscat, Masqat and whi

Arabic in general is hard to transliterate properly, especially vowels, f.ex. I noticed 3 versions of Muscat used interchangely - Moscat, Muscat, Masqat and while travelling around Oman often cities who had an A on our maps were spelled with O or U on road signs.