Gail Zappa Stone" and TMZ reported that she died following "a long battle with lung cancer". She was 70. She was survived by her four children, and four granddaughters. Gail Zappa Adelaide Gail Zappa ( Sloatman; January 1, 1945 – October 7, 2015) was the wife of musician and composer Frank Zappa and the trustee of the Zappa Family Trust. They met in Los Angeles in 1966 and married while she was pregnant with their first child, Moon, followed by Dweezil, Ahmet and Diva. In 2002, Zappa founded the Zappa Family Trust, a holder for the title and copyright to Frank Zappa's
Sun and moon letters consonant assimilation rule or the shaddah when latinized in Latin-spelled languages. Sometimes the sun and moon rules are not followed in casual speech. E.g. personal name: الرَّحْمَن - Al-Rahman instead of ""Ar-Raḥmān""; geographical name: الْجُمْهُورِيَّةُ التُّونِسِيَّة - Al-Jumhuriyah Al-Tunisiyah instead of ""al-Jumhūrīyatu ’t-Tūnisīyah"". Sun and moon letters In Arabic and Maltese, the consonants are divided into two groups, called the sun letters or solar letters ( ') and moon letters or lunar letters ( '), based on whether they assimilate the letter ' ( ') of a preceding Arabic definite article "al-" (), which is an important general rule used