Biblical Hebrew Forum

[rosewalk AT concentric.net]

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.