Re: Poogy

[Ari Davidow <ari...>]

>Ari Davidow wrote:
>
>> At 08:51 PM 6/6/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>> >What's "Poogy"?
>>
>> A band that was very popular in 1973-1975. Their albums were the first 
>Israeli albums to outsell the Beatles, in Israel.

>At 09:21 AM 6/7/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>And is that pronounced with a hard or soft G?

Hebrew doesn't have a soft G--that would come only from words brought
in from other languages. (Not that "Poogy" means anything in Hebrew,
come to think of it, it's the name of the character around whom the
original stage show loosely revolved.)

So, hard G.

ari


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