> > "beit" is a very stable semitic root. So I lean towards the

rotated

> > table as the origin of the word and hebraic scripts for the order.
>
> Well, since you don't identify yourself, it's entirely possible

that you

> know better than Wolf Leslau and Monica Devens, but I rather doubt

it.


Daniel Yacob, Unicode support obviously has a ways to go yet. I
certainly can't compare with their knowledge of languages. What did
Leslau and Devens have to say on the above matter??