Iraqui or Iraqi Dinar

People researching the Iraqi Dinar sometimes Google Iraqui dinar instead. This is understandable since "u" follows "q" in the vast majority of English language words that include "q". Indeed, Ask Oxford states that "(t)here are very few words in which q is not followed by u, and all but one have reached English from other languages." Iraqi (not Iraqui), of course, is one of these words.

There is, in fact, a tongue-in-cheek movement afoot to stop using "u" after "q" as seen in this Q&A at Google Answers:

Q: Please qantify (sic) the benefits of dropping the letter 'U' after 'Q' in the English language.

A: Hello probonopublico and thank you for your qestion (sic)

Well, for a start think of the environmental issues. Newspaper ink is 95% carbon which is produced by burning hydrocarbons. By dropping the letter U we could be saving thousands of lives a year. "Pigment for newspaper ink still comes from benzene, toluene, naphthalene, and other benzene ring hydrocarbons which may be quite harmful to human health if accumulated in the food chain."

Another reason (or not) to drop the 'U' is that it would rationalise the English language, much as the North Americans have already done Colour=Color etc....

So, if you found this page looking for "iraqui dinar", we understand. Just visit our Iraqi Dinar homepage to find exactly what you're looking for.

25,000 Iraqi Dinar Note

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The front of the Iraqi Dinar 25,000-dinar note shows a Kurdish farmer holding sheaf of wheat. Tractor in background.

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The back of the Iraqi Dinar 25,000-dinar note shows King Hammurabi. Credited with writing the first code of law in human history he founded the First Dynasty of Babylon in 1700 BC, leading Babylonia into a period of great prosperity.

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10,000 Iraqi Dinar Note

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The front of the Iraqi Dinar 10,000-dinar note shows Abu Ali Hasan Ibn al-Haitham (known as Alhazen to medieval scholars in the West), born Basrah in 965 A.D. His most important work - although he wrote some 200 books - is held to be a seven volume series on optics Kitab al-Manazir, in which he gives the first correct explanation of vision, showing that light is reflected from an object into the eye. He is said to have invented the camera obscura. Also, an eminent physicist and mathematician he developed analytical geometry by establishing linkage between algebra and geometry. Alhazen's work was translated into Latin, and greatly influenced European scientific thought.

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The back of the Iraqi Dinar 10,000-dinar note shows Hadba Minaret, at the Great Nurid Mosque, Mosul, built 1172 A.D by Nurridin Zangi, the then Turkish ruler. The 59m-high minaret leans 8 feet off the perpendicular. That is how it earned its Arabic name Al-Hadba (the humped).

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