Yeshu, Yehoshua, or Yeshua

[Paul Younan]

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Thanks for the link Paul...it was informative and very funny too...now I need to make a YouTube video for her, so she can pronounce the word "Choke" properly...lol

She says it like "Chawk" when explaining that you need to "Chawk yourself" to help pronounce the "Ayin" sound. We had a good laugh with all that, but it was a great lesson and she did a fine job.

So, when I see "Esho" or "Eshu" in the printed Liturgy books, it is spelled phonetically there, and not as it is gramatically, correct?

Shlama,
Chuck

Hey Chuck,

Yes, I was laughing out loud during that one. Can't wait to watch her Kheth video. Talk about chawking. But at least with Kheth, there are cognate sounds in Indo-European languages like German.

Ayin is truly a shibboleth to Arabic, Aramaic and certain pockets of Hebrew speakers who preserved it (those in Yemen and Iraq who were in close proximity to other Semites never lost the original pronuncition.)

We are limited by he Latin characters when writing in English, so there is no way to write names like Yeshua or Eshu and hope to convey how to pronounce it.

It's not an a, though. So maybe it's a bit deceiving to spell it with an a. I've seen people use the ' character.

Maybe Eshu' ? Yeshu' ?

At the end of a word, you would not hear it unless you're really listening for it. How do you hear a stop?

+Shamasha