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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><font face="Arial Black">Recently
someone told me that when a chirik kattan is followed by a
consonant with a dagesh in it (such as in "ishah" or
''mipnei,'') the pronunciation of the chirik changes to the
tenuah gedolah version--''Ee" as in "meet" rather than "i" as in
"mit.''<br>
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I never heard of this, and it strikes me as illogical: Aderaba:
the purpose of the dagesh is to both close the tenuah ketana
sound and to begin the next syllable; if the chirik were a
tenuah gedolah sound it would not need a closing.<br>
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Does anyone know of authoritative sources for either claim? (No
replies of ''Well, how do you say this word or that word,''
please. The way people or I pronounce things can go either way
on this.)</font><br>
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