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Re:Wiz Joins Google by 1-more on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @02:44PM (#47339529)
It has vav which gets transliterated as v, u, o, or w. How does the average modern Hebrew speaker pronounce these company names in a sentence? Vix, Vayz, Viz? Is the "w" transliteration an example of Latin to Hebrew transliteration but not vice-versa?
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Re:Wiz Joins Google by edanm on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @03:57PM (#47340475)
It's pronounced the same as in English. Wiz, Waze, Wix. It's written with "double vav" in Hebrew, not just a single vav which would make it read as Viz.
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Re:Wiz Joins Google by 1-more on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @04:54PM (#47341593)
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Re:Wiz Joins Google by null_deref on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @07:28PM (#47343945)
Yes, but it’s fair to say that this is a foreign language vowel even though we do not have problem to pronounce
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