[Mesorah] Hoshiya Na Hatzlicha Na

[D&E-H Bannett]

What you called a backwards P in the photograph of the Keter 
is not a t'lisha.  It is the old symbol for a zarka and also 
for the tzinorit.  As I posted, the words hoshi 'a and 
hatzlicha have a tzinorit-meirkha.  The merkha can be seen 
in the Keter as a sloping line under the last syllable of 
both words.

Look in the photographed Keter in Devarim at words that you 
know have a zarqa.  You will see in all of them what you 
called a reversed P, actually more like a wiggle or squiggle 
or, more correctly, a backwards rho.

Look in sifrei emet at any word with the tzinorit-merkha. 
The word's stress is on the merkha. Take any word obviously 
milra' and the merkha is on the last syllable.

You are right that Dr. Klarberg mixed up the words 
penultimate and ultimate.  To avoid that, and as I am not a 
linguist, I call them last and next-to-last.

** BTW is anyone familiar with the expressions "Larry" and 
"next-to-Larry" or is it only old-timers like me who know it 
means last and next-to-last? **


David