1 SHAMASH.ORG /usr/www/wwwhc/listserv/archives/heblang June 2000
2 77 21_RE: Initial yod-hireq21_Rosenfelder, Yehezkel36_Yehezkel_Rosenfelder@icominfosys.com30_Sun, 4 Jun 2000 09:52:45 +0300489_iso-8859-1 I do not know of anyone today who would pronounce an initial yod-hirik as _i_ (with the exception of seven year olds with a spelling problem...) -- definitely _yi_. Certainly in Israel, and also anywhere in the Diaspora that I am familiar with.<br><br>Yehezkel<br><br><br><br>-----Original Message----- From: Pere Casanellas [mailto:pere.casanellas@retemail.es] Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 12:25 PM To: Discussion of Hebrew Grammar and Etymology Subject: Initial yod-hireq [...]
80 24 21_Re: Initial yod-hireq13_Monica Devens17_mdevens@yahoo.com36_Sun, 4 Jun 2000 12:39:26 -0700 (PDT)319_us-ascii In my work on the phonetics of Israeli Hebrew, which admittedly was done a long time ago, I did come across occasional loss of initial /y/. These were, I stress, isolated cases, and showed no pattern even so. I would certainly follow the transcriptions of Asher Laufer as definitive.<br><br>Monica Devens [...]
105 26 10_Hebrew OCR7_Sefarad21_sefarad@geocities.com31_Sun, 04 Jun 2000 23:40:46 -0400421_US-ASCII Does anyone knows the best OCR software that can read the various Hebrew scripts? I got HiText, but it reads standard Hebrew print only. It does not recognise Rashi nor cursive script. Another problem is that it save the document for HebrewDos only (although I can convert it for DavkaWriter in an IBM and also for NisusWriter in a Macintosh with Hebrew system, I am searching something to use in a MacOS). [...]