On 13 Jul 99, at 16:28, gs02wmr AT panther.Gsu.EDU wrote:
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> I believe it is Mem, Taw, Samekh, Lamed, Mem.
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> How could it be a Shin in there; that would make it "mitaSHlem," which is
> not what I wrote.
Could be that Jim thought, as I did, of the sin, which differs from the
shin only in the placement of the dot; just as the one might say "bet"
in referring to both forms of the letter (with(bet) and without (vet) the
dagesh), one might similarly refer to the sin as a shin.