<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div><br></div><div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" original_font_attr="-1" original_line_height_attr="">Those are NOT proofs.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" original_font_attr="-1" original_line_height_attr="">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."</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" original_font_attr="-1" original_line_height_attr=""><br></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" original_font_attr="-1" original_line_height_attr="">FWIW Most Yekke Siddurim have only Vah as does Birnbaum</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" original_font_attr="-1" original_line_height_attr=""><br></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" original_font_attr="-1" original_line_height_attr="">Hoffmeister has Minhag Frankfort's v'yism'chu v'cha</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" original_font_attr="-1" original_line_height_attr=""><br></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" original_font_attr="-1" original_line_height_attr="">The "vah vo vam" is found in the Magen Avraham.  I'm not sure of his source.  Could very well be Abudarham...</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" original_font_attr="-1" original_line_height_attr=""><br></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" original_font_attr="-1" original_line_height_attr=""><br></p></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">RRW</div>