12-13-2012, 06:10 PM
bar Sinko Wrote:The Texas RAT Wrote:Also for the Old English spelling of The Anointed One's Name they had an older form of the letter s that was taller and slenderer (elongated so to speak) which was to denote the sh sound (see Concise Oxford English Dictionary at the above mentioned webpage under Pronunciation). So the Old English spelling, other than the dastardly Greek sigma attached, would have been spot on to the Aramaic rendering of The Anointed One's Hebrew Name, but still short of the Hebrew pronunciation.
Shlama Will,
The long "s" is no different phonetically from the regular "s". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s. The letter "esh", a very similar-looking letter was only introduced in 1847 to represent the "sh" sound, which was later adopted into the International Phonetic Alphabet. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esh_%28letter%29. Therefore, the English "Jesus" results from a transliteration from the Greek, where there is no s/sh distinction.
bar Sinko
After reading your references I see the difference between the older long s and the 1847 form for the sh sound. I will no longer reference the IPA one as the same archaic one in the older texts.
And at the same time no one should reference the Jnfamous capital letter i as the modern hard consonant J sound, but either as the long e vowel sound or as the consonant y sound, as history clearly show that the capital letter i only appears to resemble the modern capital j.