[Avodah] La'az or Lo'ez in Rashi?

[Zev Sero]

T613K at aol.com wrote:

> It would appear that the author of the [unsigned] Publisher's Preface of 
> the ArtScroll Chumash, like R' Silbermann, regards the word 
> Lamed-Ayin-Zayin as a word and not an abbreviation, since he 
> transliterates it "lo'ez" and not "la'az."

That wouldn't explain the odd transliteration; "lo`ez" is a verb,
meaning "those who speak la`az".  The Mishna uses both forms in the
same phrase: "kor'in otah lelo`azim bela`az".  Using "lo`ez" as a
noun seems plainly wrong.

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