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What's 9 doing in FA9LA, Dhurandhar's runaway hit song Sher-e-Baloch?

The FA9LA isn't a typo or a catchy title. The 9 replaces an Arabic letter for a strong "s" sound, a trend from Arabizi, the ...
The Forward

How did the letter ayin become a vowel in Yiddish?

A recent article on the website, Seforim Blog, compares the phonetics of biblical Hebrew and Arabic. In the post, the author, Rabbi Avi Grossman, remarks that he “cannot fathom” why the letter ayin (ע ...