At 19:00 -0400 2004-05-27, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

> > "Veyz" is not a Unicode name, it's a term used in the Yiddish context for
>> bet with rafe. It normally occurs only in words of Hebrew origin.
>> The Unicode name is HEBREW LETTER BET WITH RAFE.
>
>There's no justification for /z/; it's the spirantization of /t/, and
>the name of the letter is veys.

Argue with Weinreich then. (You can't as he died in 1967.)

> > SIN DOT is a Unicode name (in full HEBREW POINT SIN DOT) for the dot used
>> to distinguish sin from shin. Sin, again, is only used in Hebrew
>>borrowings.
>> Yiddish normally writes shin with no dot.
>
>Then it could be SIN DOT over SHIN.

The name of SHIN WITH SIN DOT in Yiddish is Sin.
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