I am loath to institute a "practice" REQUIRING everyone to check Even-Shoshan for treatment of doubtful words--for the simple reason that "doubtfulness thresholds" vary and not everyone will apply the practice to the same words.
Let's say instead that if anyone NOTICES this kind of exceptional treatment of an initial labial consonant in Even-Shoshan's usages, that person will notify Heb-NACO. Words not proved by means of Even-Shoshan to be exceptions should continue to be treated as unexceptional. Heidi, can you start an online list to keep track of these exceptions? I'll work on fixing any LC "u-folitik..." that I can find. Joan >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/24/05 3:43 PM >>> Even-Shoshan has "u-poli.ti.kah". RLIN has 51 clusters with "u-foli.ti.kah" and 78 clusters with "u-poli.ti.kah" Should we establish a practice whereby we look first in Even-Shoshan? If Even-Shoshan provides us with an example of one of these types of words, we transcribe it as it appears. If a foreign loan word beginning with b/v, k/kh, p/f does not appear with a prefix in Even-Shoshan,perhaps we should develop some sort of guideline governing its transcription.
