I did a spot check on the spreadsheet that Peter made, and I noticed
that many of the homonyms he listed are not homonyms when using
different lexicographic methods. But that should not significantly
change the rankings, I don't think.
In closing, my observation was that sin and shin together were found
in homonyms no more frequently than other letters as a percentage of
total uses. The statistical study by Peter bears that out. But I agree
with Peter that that in itself does not prove that sin and shin were
one phoneme in Biblical Hebrew, neither does it disprove it.
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