<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><br>The recent discussion of the pronunciation of 'emes' leads me to suspect<br>that the expertise is out there to answer a question that has been bugging<br>me for years:<br><br>Why do we say "Mi Chamocha ba'eilim HaShem" <br>but say "Mi Camocha n'edar baKodesh". In other words, why is there a dagesh <br>in the first letter of the second kaf-mem-kaf-heh, but not in the first?<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>steve<br></div></body></html>