[Avodah] Ancient Ashkenazi Hebrew

[Joel C. Salomon]

On 09/07/2011 11:10 AM, Micha Berger wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 10:40:00AM -0400, T613K at aol.com wrote:
> >                The "ng" sound is natural in the middle or end of a word but  
> > would be hard to pronounce at the beginning of a word.
> 
> I don't find that to be true. Perhaps you're overly influenced by being
> an English speaker, where "-ng" is only used to close syllables.

Similarly, the most common Vietnamese family name is Nguyen (Nguyễn,
actually, but I don’t know if the accents will make it through),
pronounced something like ‹‘win›.

Along those lines, the line “עטה אור כשלמה, נוטה שמים כיריעה” in
Tehillim 104 sounds almost like a pun.

—Chesky