[Mesorah] Looking for Common Denominators

[D&E-H Bannett]

Re R'IRJ's posting: The segol to patach in my posting was 
about sha-ata she-ata. It was not about geshem gashem.

BTW, geshem was changed to gashem by Vaye'tar Ytizhak, i.e., 
by R Yitz Satanov in 1784.  The change from gefen to gafen 
first appeared in R' Shabbetai Sofer's siddur in 1615.

>From what I read in the Mesorah list, I would expect that R' 
Hoffmeister would have changed them back.


k"t,

David