Re: Second invention of the alphabet?

At 19:18 -0400 2004-05-27, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

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

That is bizarre!

> > > > 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.

My error. Pardon.
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