(11-15-2021, 12:29 AM)robrecht Wrote: [...] waw [...]
I much appreciate your reply.
By the way, would you happen to know why, since we pronounce ו (vov), as a "v", in English, do we then (as you have correctly done) spell it in English: "wow"?
[The letter vov is only displaying correctly when shown in the drafting field.]
On a similar but of course not related directly to this particular discussion, I also do not understand why its: "Israel" in English, and not the "Yisrael" that it seems to me it ought to be.
Compare with the (to me) equally mystifying "Yerushalyim", that in English becomes: "Jerusalem".
That even though both those words in Hebrew: "Yisrael" and "Yerushalyim", are spelt with the very same Hebrew first letter, a Yud, yet the one word gets in English its first letter rendered as an "I", while the other gets a "J" !