Ilya went into a tiny tiff about being an 'assumed' man over on MSNBC a couple years ago, going into some detail about immigration typos, and her own image of herself in the gallery was that of a woman in diving gear.

Bringing up a mess of male Ilyas simply seems to bolster her own argument about the typos that eventually end up in identification folders. There are also a large number of Korean families in the US named 'Park', though in Korea, the KATUSA soldiers and Korean techs I worked with explained the name is actually pronounced 'Pak'.

And what about Osama bin Laden?

Or is it Olsama bin Laden?

How about Osoma ben Ladin?

The media has narrowed the spelling for us to assume Osama bin Laden is the correct spelling -- but it's Arabic!

Ilya is Russian, as is Illya (do a google on Illya images).

I think I'll believe what Ilya Taytslin types of herself, rather than what others are willing to assume,
Dan