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Re: How do you pronounce Moishe?
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Moe(like the first name)- she (like the feminine pronoun)... sort of. I was talking to a Jewish friend who speaks Hebrew and saying "moe-she" and he had no idea what I was talking about until I spelled it for him. Then he said it aloud, but to my ear it sounded exactly the same way I pronounced it. I have another friend that had a similiar conversation with a professor of Hebrew studies.
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In Hebrew it's spelled "Moshe," and poronounced "MOE-SHAY."In Yiddish, it's spelled "Moishe" (As you spelled it above)or "Moyshe," and pronounced "MOY-shuh."
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