[B-Greek] HTA
Gerry
Mishkan at Blueyonder.co.uk
Sun Jul 16 16:41:17 EDT 2006
Thanks Randall for your clarity concerning the pronunciation of HTA.
In his grammar Ward seems to indicate that the HTA carries a English "R" sound by his examples.
His examples for pronunciation are as follows: Yair-soos for Jesus and Or-gair for ORGH.
It would seem from these that he intends that the pronunciation carries the "R" sound.
He gave me a further example in English to indicate what he meant.
"Eta is the long version of epsilon. The sound as in "there" is thus easy
to remember - and logical - as it is in fact a longer, drawn-out version of
epsilon. Check this out for yourself: say the word "shed", then say it
again, but make the vowel sound longer, i.e. a "long e". And "shed" has now
become "shared" - that is, the epsilon sound has become the long "e" sound
in "there". (Or "air", if you like.)"
Unless I have fundamentally misunderstood his intent then it appears that he believes an "R" sound is part of HTA's pronunciation.
Shalom
Gerry Todd
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