From: Dean Snyder (dean.snyder@jhu.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 06 2003 - 14:25:19 EST
Chris Jacobs wrote at 6:02 PM on Thursday, March 6, 2003:
>BoSeM, is written with a SIN with two dots in
>Ben Yehuda's Pocket English-Hebrew Hebrew-English dictionary.
>It translates as perfume, spice there.
>I see the spelling in Ben Tehuda's is inconsistent.
>In the English-Hebrew section under perfume the dot is above the BETH, as
>you describe it.
>But under spice there is again the SIN with two dots, like in the Hebrew-
>English section.
...
>In that same pocket dictionary MoSHeL, rule; resemblance, has no dot over
>the MEM. It has one dot over the SHIN.
Ben Yehuda is a "modern" Hebrew dictionary, and, as I noted in my
original email, I have little experience in modern, Israeli Hebrew -
maybe the orthography is different there, I just don't know. Which is why
I was limiting my remarks to classical Hebrew.
Maybe we have some Israeli lurkers out here who can help us with this?
Respectfully,
Dean A. Snyder
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