[HANASHIR:10217] Re: vavs

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The most common mistake when teaching kids from a Jewish Day School who 
should know this rule of grammar was in Aleinu - "VA-anachnu".  Almost all of 
them say v'-anachnu.

Michael

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> Date: Thursday, 01-Nov-01 06:58 AM
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> From: Joanna Selznick Dulkin   \ Internet:    (joanna (at) 
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> Subject:  [HANASHIR:10205] vavs
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> Ellen et al,
> 
> Here's an easy way to remember/recognize if a vav before a letter is
> pronounced 'ooh' or v'
> 
> "Boomaff" - an acronym for Bet, vav, mem, pay.
> 
> When a vav appears before Bet, Vav, Mem or Pay, it is pronounced ooh, and
> those letters lose their usual dagesh.
> 
> Otherwise, as Donna said, there are no other hard-and-fast rules...but
> boomaf will actually get you pretty far.
> 
> Joanna Selznick Dulkin
> JTS cantorial student currently studying in Jerusalem (--->not
> b'y'rushalayim, but "Veerushalayim" -- another case of when the vav before
> a word changes its vowel sound.)
> 
> >Probably the best thing to tell your students is that there are many
> >grammatical rules for the Hebrew in the Torah and our prayerbook.  
Sometimes
> >they may see it as V' , Vee, Vah, and Veh depending on the word that it is
> >attached to.
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