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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">A recent broadcast on Israeli radio pointed out that the s'michut of words of binyan "ketel" differs from that of binyan k'tal. The first binyan is of Tanachic provenance, while the second is post-Tanachic and entered Hebrew under the influence of Aramaic. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The first group includes words like "perek", "beged", "perach", and "peleg", and their s'michut in the plural is "pirkei", "bigdei", pirchei", and "palgei".</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="he"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Guttman Yad-Brush"><SPAN DIR=RTL> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"><SPAN DIR=RTL>The second group contains words like "p'ras", "p'gam", "p'rat", and "k'lal", and their 'smichut forms are "p'rasei", "p'gamei", p'ratei", and "k'lalei" (even though 99% of Israelis wrongly say "pirtei p'ratim" instead of "p'ratei p'ratim").</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"><SPAN DIR=RTL>My question is: at first glance, the words "sh'tar" and "p'sak" also belong to the second group. But in the siddur we find the usage: "shitrei hovoteinu", not "sh'tarei". Also I have never heard anybody say "p'sakei halacha" (as opposed to "piskei z'man" for intermissions). Are these simply examples of misuse of the language? Do S'faradim pronounce them "sh'tarei" and "p'sakei"?.</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN DIR=RTL> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"><SPAN DIR=RTL>Kol tuv,</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"><SPAN DIR=RTL>Shlomo Godick </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="COLOR: #999999; FONT-FAMILY: David">המידע הכלול בהודעת דוא"ל זו הנו חסוי
וסודי. המידע מיועד לשימושו של הנמען בלבד. אם קורא הודעה זו אינו הנמען, הננו
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הגיעה אליך בטעות, הנך מתבקש ליידע אותנו בהקדם בדוא"ל, ולמחוק את ההודעה מהמחשב
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