I ended last week’s column, which had to do with the pronunciation of the letter Gimmel in ancient Hebrew, with an explanation of how the dual nature of the beged-kefet consonants as both plosives and ...

IT'S a sair fecht fan yer nichts are disappearin'and yer lochs are in danger o' becomin' locks. That, according to academic research, is what is happening to the Doric dialect because the use of the ...

Originally, six Hebrew letters had dual stop/fricative roles, and all six followed the same pattern. The set is known by the mnemonic beged kefet (bet-gimel-daled kaf-peh-tav), which by chance means ...