From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 11 11:42:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA29048 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 11:42:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from csnet.cs.technion.ac.il (csnet.cs.technion.ac.il [132.68.32.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA29026 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 11:42:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nadav@cs.technion.ac.il) Received: from csd.csa (csd [132.68.32.8]) by csnet.cs.technion.ac.il (8.6.11/8.6.10) with ESMTP id MAA04387; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 12:09:39 +0200 Received: from localhost by csd.csa (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA16397; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 12:10:43 +0200 Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 12:10:42 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron X-Sender: nadav@csd To: Simon Shapiro cc: Josef Grosch , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Patch to calendar.judaic In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, Simon Shapiro wrote: > > On 10-Jan-98 Josef Grosch wrote: > > Enclosed is a patch to bring calendar.judaic current with the common > > calendar. Mike Pritchard did the last revision but he seems to have > > dropped > > off. The person who reviews this patch should be famillular with the > > Judaic > > calendar and Hebrew to English trasliterations. > > Few comments embedded (Yes, I do speak Hebrew :-) > > Generally, an ending Tav, is pronouced by Easter-European Jews as a soft > `s', and by Israelie's as `t'. Historically, it was pronounced as a soft > `th' more than either version. A 'th' is also the transcription approved by the Hebrew Language Academy, though most Israelies will write a 't'. Nadav