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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Those are NOT proofs.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">As is well known, the yanuhu bah, bo, bam is something adopted from the Abudarham, IIRC. It is not present in any old mss. siddurim. You might as well argue that Shabbos can be plural.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">The qomatz issue requires a lengthy discussion, demanding too much time to write it before I go overseas tomorrow.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Suffice it to say that a lot of grammar you have been taught is just like the English rules to say I shall, you will, we shall. This is grammar that was made up by a grammarian, but has no basis in fact.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">(As is the prohibition of the "double negative" in English. English, like many languages, uses a negative particle for each word in a sentence: I never did nothin' like this never nohow. It was standard in all English,
including Beowolf, Chaucer, Shakespeare, until a a grammarian decided that it was not logical. That grammarian was a linguistic ignoramus).</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Be very wary of any "rules" you see in grammar books.<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Mesorah <mesorah-bounces@lists.aishdas.org> on behalf of Ira L. Jacobson via Mesorah <mesorah@lists.aishdas.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, April 14, 2019 1:53 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Mesorah] How widespread is ignorance of Hebrew?</font>
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<div><font size="3" color="#000080"><i>At 16:30 14-04-19 +0000, Mandel, Seth stated the following:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" class="x_cite"><font size="3">WADR, I am not aware of any case where the Hebrew word Shabbos is masculine. The Yiddish word Shabes is masculine.
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The qomatz vs pasach at the end of the word is a completely different issue, qomatz May be correct even in s?mikhut. It is more more complex that simple grammars would have you believe.
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In the 18 of Shaharit, Mussaf and probably Minha on Shabbat, the word Shabbat is masculine. In Ma`ariv it is feminine.<br>
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</font><font size="3" color="#000080">Like ru'ah and derekh, for example.<br>
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One could smile and refer to these words as transgender.<br>
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</font><font color="#000080">Could you explain why Shabbat with a bet qemutza could be semihut?<br>
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</font></dd><dd><font size="3" color="#000080">During General Grant's "Western Campaign," he </font>
</dd><dd><font size="3" color="#000080">issued "General Order #11," which evicted all Jews
</font></dd><dd><font size="3" color="#000080">from his area of operations. </font></dd><dd><font size="3" color="#000080">(NOT his finest moment)<br>
</font></dd><dd><font size="3" color="#000080">mailto: laser@ieee.org<br>
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