No grand wizard

[Geoff Nathan]

"Victor Steinbok" <aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM> said:


'BTW, Gregory pronounces Bialik as "Bee-'elik". Are there no Slavs or
Yiddish-speakers in the media? '

Without wishing to contradict my esteemed colleague, I should point out that the first Bialik I heard of was the famous Hebrew poet (granting the influence of Slavic and Yiddish on modern Hebrew, of course... And the fact that he also wrote a few poems in Yiddish) .
The point still stands, though. Media people these days don't know nuttin... Muttermuttergrumble...

Geoff

Geoffrey S. Nathan
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