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  • From: rosewalk AT concentric.net
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Sukkot
  • Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 21:10:55 -0400

When I see the word Sukot, it doesn't even look to my "mind's eye" like a word with a long "u", it reads to me a "u" sounding like the "u" in the word "suck". For the word to sound like a long "u" and have only one consonent, I would need it to be spelled "sookot" - which looks ridiculous.

That is how ingrained the spelling of Sukkot with double consonent is, to me.

Shoshanna Walker


A convention in this case is the way most folks do it, and as Shoshanna has demonstrated,
this one is most definitely a convention in transliteration.




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