[Avodah] Pronunciation of Emet

Zev Sero zev at sero.name
Sun Dec 12 14:18:17 PST 2010


On 12/12/2010 4:35 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 10:35:26AM -0500, Zev Sero wrote:
>> What is "sefer"?  A number?  Is this even a word in pre-modern Hebrew?
>
> Yeah, among Sepharadim. Bad example. Agreed.
>
> Howabout Dovid haMeilikh?

Only in Polish and/or Hungarian Yiddish (one of those non-Litvish dialects,
anyway), AFAIK.  But OK.

> Or attending a seider on Peisach?

No, that's a tzeirei in Hebrew too.

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