[Heb-NACO] Galili vs. Gelili

[Kuperman, Aaron]

If it is a personal name, why shouldn’t it be Romanized based on the person’s preference.  As an example, my surname can be pronounced with the “u” being pronounced as an “oo”(וּ ) sound (which is how I pronounce it) or as a short “u” (an “uh” sound) which is how many people pronounce it, as an “ee” sound (as my grandfather would have pronounced it in Europe, reflecting how Yiddish pronounces וּ ).  Why should we transliterate based on a pronounciation for a name that the person with the name never used? --Aaron

From: heb-naco-bounces at lists.service.ohio-state.edu [mailto:heb-naco-bounces at lists.service.ohio-state.edu] On Behalf Of Joseph Galron-Goldschlaeger
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Several years ago we had the issue of the correct transliteration of the name

 גלילי

There is an historical overview and explanation in the last issue of Oneg Shabbat<http://onegshabbat.blogspot.com/2014/03/blog-post_2267.html>, a blog by Prof. David Asaf of Tel Aviv University

http://onegshabbat.blogspot.com/2014/03/blog-post_2267.html

Yossi


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