Dip-thong

[Kim & Rima McKinzey]

At 1:33 PM -0400 5/19/00, Dfcoye at AOL.COM wrote:
>... There
>is also the Old Testament foolish father Jephtha (mentioned in Hamlet),
>where spellings indicate it too was JEP-thuh.

The Hebrew is yifTAH.  Perhaps the ph transliterations can be assumed to be f and the actual letter the peh without a dagesh (center dot which would make it a p). This is as opposed to the th transliterations which are NEVER th (with the particular exception of B'nei Brith).

And no one has brought up ophthalmologist.  Not only is the ph an issue, but how many of you actually pronounce that first l?

Rima