jj jackman a speckled bird - index
double schva (3/21/01) i didn't leave in anger but rather in excitement hoping that like Samuel pronounced she mu el and like Rebecca pronounced rive kah that the Hebrew pronunciation of Mordecai would be equally unlike its English inflection but in actuality the Hebrew and English enunciations seemed nearly identical they were so similar and in frustration i searched further and further until i found the double schva the schva has its impact also shorten shorten little schva little dots are all you are underneath a resh or yowd like a little secret code shorten shorten little schva little dots are all you are take marah for example which means bitterness this is prounounced mah rah because it has no schva and yet marah which means vision is pronounced mare ah you see the stop at the r resulting from the shva though subtle it causes a total contrast of concept: bitterness verses vision mare ah stems from mare eh which means appearance and from mare ah we get the English word mirror and the Spanish word mirar and the synthesis of bitterness and vision becomes the English word mirage but still there is no i in the middle of marah only an i in the middle of my soul and me rah yah is rebellion somehow in the middle of bitterness and vision as Mordecai is alphabetically between mare ah and mah rah and we don't get Mary from mah rah or bitterness we are told it comes from Mire yam meaning rebellious and in English we say Miriam but back to More de kah ee or in English Mordecai there is hardly any apparent difference at all and this is the result of the double schva the double stop at the beginning of the word shorten shorten little schva little dots are all you are underneath a resh or yowd like a little secret code shorten shorten little schva little dots are all you are and yes this difference is more dramatic and partially explained my previous agitation i guess i knew i was going to discover something big in the ancient name More de cai not only graced with one schva but with two schva and these powerful little stops in consonant flow possibly allowed this name to survive pretty intact to the present day