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Offline Hermine Dow  
#1 Posted : Saturday, December 21, 2013 8:48:24 AM(UTC)
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When you use the English consonant W, as in mitswah, or sawah or Yahowah

should one give it an long vowel O sound, as in SNOW?

or the consonant W sound, as in wagon?

Offline James  
#2 Posted : Monday, December 23, 2013 6:54:54 AM(UTC)
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I pronounce it OW as in snow.
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Offline Hermine Dow  
#3 Posted : Saturday, December 28, 2013 7:06:31 AM(UTC)
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so Mitswah would be pronounced mits-o-ah, no consonant w sound in there at all? And Yahowah would be pronounced Yah -o -ah, no consonant w sound?
Offline James  
#4 Posted : Sunday, December 29, 2013 7:28:04 AM(UTC)
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according to most grammars the waw is a vowel/consonant, so the consonant w sound is possible. After examining the most common Hebrew words found in scripture that contain it the ow pronunciation seems to be the most common by far, but I would not state for 100% certainty that one is right and the other wrong.
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