Elizha in 1961

[Herb Stahlke]

I was channel surfing this evening when I happened upon the 1961 move
"King of Kings," surely as bad a religious epic as ever has been
filmed.  But the movie was just at the point where someone in the
crowd asks John the Baptist if he is "Elizha."  Very clearly a voiced
fricative.  I didn't realize that foreignizing of the orthographic <j>
was around 51 years ago.  I wonder how long it's been going on.

Herb

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