[Avodah] Changing havarah?

[Jonathan Baker]

From: Zev Sero <zev at sero.name>
> A & C Walters wrote:
> >> On the contrary, from the quote you provided it seems that they were
> >> pronounced exactly the same, and the difference was only in writing.

> > You misread. I wrote, bishmoy: "even though it seems that there is no 
> > difference between a kometz and a pasach, this is not so, in that the 
> > kometz is a higher sound and the pasach is lower"
 
> What are the Hebrew words you're translating as "a higher sound"
> and "a lower sound".  I very much suspect you're misunderstanding them.

I can't read Hebrew characters here, so I don't know what phrase you
realized he was using.

Could "higher/lower" refer to higher/lower in the mouth/throat?
aw or oo are made at the front of the mouth, with the lips, while
aah is farther back, hence lower in the body.

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