Uniform Hebrew-English Transliteration

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Best Wishes for a Happy New Year

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The systems were discarded as
soon as finished, for no one
would accept them. Each
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its own peculiar way of trans-
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literation, with the result that
there was little or no uni-
formity.
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For example, take the simple
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Greetings on Rosh Hashanah to All
Hebrew letter tsadek, the 18th
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Bes t Wishes for a Happy New _Year
Our Friends and Customers
letter of the alphabet. Several Ei
years ago the Post Office
To Our Friends and Patrons
MARIO'S
issued a telephone directory
in which this letter was trans-
In New Orleans, It's Antoines
literated by the letter c. Safed
In San Francisco, It's Omar Khayyam
Phili
became Cfat. The cries of pro-
_
In DETROIT, It's MARIO'S
test—not necessarily confined
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to this innovation of the Post
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to
forced the Post Office to go 17- of
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around with a red face for
,
months.
New Year Greetings
Holiday Greetings
Today, the Academy's pro-
posal is a simple letter z with
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a line under it, thus z. Much
soul-searching
and
wracking
of
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It was decided to use only one
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two. So two popular versions,
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is and tz, were discarded. The
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c was also rejected. Finally, it
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was decided on z, a symbol
which could easily be written
on any typewriter or set up
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New Year Best Wishes
New Year Greetings
without any difficulty in print.
Only one other letter, h, used
to symbolize het, has a line
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under it: h.
Most letters offered no diffi-
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culties at all. Bet is b; Vet is
v; gimel is g; daled is d; heh
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is h; zayin is z; tet and tav are
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t; yod is y; kaf is k; lamed is
1; mem is m; nun is n; samech
and sin are s; peh is p; feh
f; resh is r and shin is sh.
New Year's Best Wishes
Two letters, vav and ko:
c ontain all the ingredients
to All Our Friends and Patrons
s tarting a first-class controve
: y. The first is transliterate
1 y w. Although this seem
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: ince they generally pronounc
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i i t v, it is more in line wit]
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I he pronunciation of man
] ersons • from Arab-speakin
c ountries. The kof becomes
In daily practice today, th
Cordial Holiday Greetings
v , av is v and the kof is
A ny attempt to switch ove
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t o w and q is bound to lea
t o a long drawn out oral anc
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w ritten fight.
Industrial — Commercial — Personal
The aleph and ayin are boti
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i f they have a shva na or na
u nder them. This is commoi
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/ ractice today. For example
t he aleph would appear in
c ommon name in this fashion
-! ig'al, while the ayin woul
Greetings on the • New Year
a ppear as Gid'on. If these tw
1 etters, aleph and ayin, appeal
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a t the end of a word and have
General Offices and Terminal
r o vowel under them they are
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not transliterated. If they ap
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As for the vowels,_ the great•
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e st change is writing the shv
a as the letter e. Thus, ii
ould not be shva na, bu
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Neva na. A better example
could be the name, popularly
ritten today as Zvi, which
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could become Zevi.
The other vowels follow the
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egular Sephardi pronuncia
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on: a is used for pata.h and
amaz gedol; e for segol and
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iri; o for holam and gamaz
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atan; i for hireq; u for shureq
u d qibuz.
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As for the dagesh hazaq, it
will be rendered by doubling
the letter, thusly: zaddiq. How-
Best Wishes for a Happy New Year
ever, when the dagesh hazak
follows heh hayidia, it will not
be doubled., but a hyphen in-
troduced between the heh and
the main word. For example,
ha-zorea is correct and not
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hazzorea.
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(Copyright, 1956, JTA, Inc.)
out the system.
JERUSALEM — The Hebrew
Past attempts to formulate a
Language Academy has its method acceptable to all, by
fingers crossed these days. For groups abroad or by the Aca-
in the next few weeks it will demy (or by its direct prede-
issue its system of transliter- cessor the Hebrew Language
ating Hebrew into English, or Committee) raised storms of
rather into the Roman alpha- protests not only in this coun-

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Israel Engineering Parley
Postponed to Spring of '57

The World Assembly of Engi-
neer and Architect Friends of
Israel has been postponed until
the spring of 1957, according to
an announcement this week by
U. Shalon, president of the Cen-
tral Committee of Engineers
and Architects in Israel. Post-
ponement had been requested
by overseas members of the
organization..

