[Avodah] The halachically correct way to spell "Harvey"

Zev Sero via Avodah avodah at lists.aishdas.org
Fri Sep 1 08:59:47 PDT 2017


On 31/08/17 19:08, Micha Berger via Avodah wrote:
> "Harvey" is easy. Not like "John", with that/dzh/  thing for the "j".

The J sound comes up a lot more in Mediterranean names, so the Sefardi 
teshuvot discuss it.   IIRC in Italy, where the local language spells 
that sound "GI", the same convention arose in Hebrew, and in gittin it 
was spelt gimel yud.

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