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In soc.culture.jewish on Mon, 16 Jun 1997 16:59:43 GMT
jschmitz@qis.net.deleteme! (JoAnne Schmitz) posted:

>On Sun, 15 Jun 1997 07:07:19 GMT, yrab...@midway.uchicago.edu (Eugene
>Rabinovich) wrote:

>>Libertarius (att...@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
>>
>>:     How do youknow that the supposed "code" refers to RABIN and not
>>:     RUBEN or something else? How do you no that "AMIR" is not MIRA
>>:     or MARY or EMIR or AMORY or something else?
>>
>>I am not defending Drosnin's book, but consonants are routinely used in
>>Hebrew to portray vowels. For example, Rabin is spelled
>>"resh-bet-yud-nun," while Ruben would be spelled "resh-vav-bet-nun." Also,
>>Amir would definitely be spelled differently than Mira or Mary or Amory,
>>but could be spelled the same as Emir.

>Would someone kindly explain what aleph is?  I thought it was a Hebrew
>letter which is the equivalent of "A."
Close. It's the first letter of the aleph-bet (alphabet) like A is but
it is pretty much silent in Hebrew.   (In Yiddish it is pronounced
like a short a.)  Back to Hebrew, since most vowels sounds are not
written as letters, any word that starts with a vowel sound would have
a silent letter as a first letter, aleph or ayin, which is also pretty
much silent.  (glottal stops, guttural this and that not included).
Hope that was clear.  <g>
>JoAnne "frankly confused" Schmitz
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