I missed part of the original thread and with all the work I've got, just dived in 
with what was on my mind. :)

At 02:33 PM 6/6/02, you wrote:
>Oy.
>
>I make a joke, and Mikey D turns it into a language 
>lesson.
>
><sigh>
>(<grin>)
>
>-Ben
>
>> Unless your Ashkinazi who has not thrown out the extra sound for the letter 
>> Tav/Sav. We use the term Bris which never confuses the English. :)
>> (Some letters in Hebrew have more than one sound. Some of these extra sounds 
>> have been 'tossed out' by different Jewish communities. I'm totally against 
>> tossing sounds out, but its politics now).
>> 
>> At 01:52 PM 6/6/02, you wrote:
>> >OK, so the contingent to the east of the pond are 
>> >British, Brit for short.
>> >
>> >But "Brit" means "covenant" in Hebrew.
>> >And the covenant means 
>> ><snip>
>> ></snip>
>> >
>> >And 
>> ><snip>
>> ></snip>
>> >isn't a British tradition.
>> >
>> >Oh, I'm *so* confused ...
>> ><grin>
>> >
>> >-Ben
>> >
>> >
>> 
>
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