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  • From: Vadim Cherny <him AT vadimcherny.org>
  • To: Bill Rea <bill.rea AT canterbury.ac.nz>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] About Dagesh's
  • Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:27:09 +0300

Not really.
mama has first long [a]
mamma has first short [a]
In Hebrew, that would be two different words.

Vadim Cherny

Bill Rea wrote:
In cases where a doubling of a letter would change the meaning of a word
people are quite capable of pronouncing a word without the doubling. For
example mamma (with two m-s) can easily be pronounced differently from
mama





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