Biblical Hebrew Forum

[rosewalk AT concentric.net]

Yes, I am directing my "mind's eye" to see Hebrew, and my "mind's 
eye" sees a word that doesn't exist in Hebrew, when it is spelled 
sukot.  My "mind's eye" has seen "Sukkot" for 50 years.  Even last 
night on NYC network news - a charity organization giving food for 
Sukkot - the charity organization called "Dorot Sukkot" - a big sign 
shown.

Shoshanna Walker, NY



> You should possibly direct your "mind's eye" to see Hebrew not 
> English. There are no short and long vowels in Hebrew.
>
> Isaac Fried, Boston University
>
> On Sep 19, 2010, at 9:10 PM, rosewalk AT concentric.net wrote:
>
> > 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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