Re:Pronouncing non-English names for English speakers
by LegitShady on Monday July 26, 2021 @10:14AM
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The hebrew ‘jacob’ is pronounced with a v rather than b sound at the end as well. It’s more like Yaqov than Yaqob. It uses the same letter ‘bet’ but with a dot in the middle its a b sound, without the dot in the middle its a v sound, and in modern use they don’t add the dots in at all and assume everyone knows how to pronounce things.
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Re:Pronouncing non-English names for English speakers
by eyko on Monday July 26, 2021 @12:13PM
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TIL! So many (most?) christian names have hebrew origins so it's just great to see how much hebrew pronounciation has been completely violated to create words that sometimes barely resemble the original.