[Avodah] Changing Havarah

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 01:47:47PM -0500, Zev Sero wrote:
: What are the Hebrew words you're translating as "a higher sound"
: and "a lower sound".  I very much suspect you're misunderstanding them.

To get the conversation back to the point... The two sounds were different
in the Ashkenazi havarah of the period. BUT,

In what havarah is the qamatz gevoha va'elyonah compared to the patach?
The qamatz is qemutzah, and thus rounder than the patach patuach. It
would be a atypical metaphor to describe a sound made by closing the
lips more as "higher" - "aw", "o" and "oo" are elyonim?

Tir'u baTov!
-mi

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