Re: PS- Passover and Easter , Pe'saj and Pascua

On Sat, 26 Dec 1998 20:59:38 -0600 Eric Christopherson <eric@...>
writes:
>Steg Belsky wrote:
>> I think i just realized why "Passover" sounds strange to me as i
>> mentioned in a previous email...it's probably the [E@] / [e@] in
>"pass".
>Is that a strange sound to you? Around here, it would be /p&sovr=/.
>Doesn't sound strange to me. However, I don't like the sound of
>"Pesach" if it is accented on the first syllable. I always thought it
>was on the second, but the Spanish version would seem to show
>otherwise.
It's not the [E@] / [e@] sound itself which sounds strange to me, it
sounds strange used in the word "Passover"....probably because it's a
very English-language sound put onto a Jewish holiday.  Pesach is
pronounced (depending on the accent) ['pesax] or ['pesaH], just in case
it sounded weird to you because of using a [tS] sound for the {ch}.


-Stephen (Steg)

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