At 06:50 PM 9/5/99 +0200, you wrote: >Henry, I'm sure you realize that in the dual ending the YOD is a consonant, thus is >not an optional MATER. > ALL matres are optional. Jim +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Jim West, ThD email- jwest at highland.net web page- http://web.infoave.net/~jwest