Michael Everson wrote:

>
> 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.)

Dovid Katz agrees with Weinreich; Birnbaum, bizarrely, has beiz and veis
(adjacent in the table).

> > > 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.

You said SIN DOT IN SIN, which is hardly the same thing.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...