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Adam Walker wrote: > I think more than > anything it's the fact that I'm unsure what the > difference between sin and samekh was/is and whether > it would be important to C-a. [skip] > Shin is always borrowed as |x| /S/. Samekh is > borrowed as |s| /s/. And tsadek is borrowed as |z| > /z/. It's sin I'm unsure of. From what we know of some misspellings in Mishnah, at least as early as in the 2nd c. AD both sin and samekh were pronounced the same: [s]. -- Yitzik