Variant Spellings of Uqbar

While searching for the entry "Uqbar" in The Anglo-American Cyclopaedia found in the villa on Gaona Street, Borges and Casares also look for its other possible spellings.

These variant spellings have been transcribed slightly differently by different translators: It appears that "Ooqbar" germinated spontaneously in Reed's translation, and this mutant was carried over by Irby and de Giovanni.
 * Spanish original: "Ukbar, Ucbar, Ookbar, Oukbahr"
 * Alastair Reed (Ficciones): "Ukbar, Ucbar, Ooqbar, Ookbar, Oukbahr"
 * James Irby (Labyrinths): "Ukbar, Ucbar, Ooqbar, Ookbar, Oukbahr"
 * Andrew Hurley (Collected Fictions): "Ukbar, Ucbar, Ookbar, Oukbahr"
 * Norman Thomas de Giovanni (Web page): "Ukbar, Ucbar, Ooqbar, Ookbar, Oukbahr, and so forth."

In any case, Borges and Casares find no mention of any of the variants in the Gaona Street cyclopaedia.