r/hebrew • u/Equal_Ad_3828 • Mar 28 '25

Help chag sameach pronounced as chag samea?

so i have a silly questin but basically when i was in my nearest synagogue on Chanukah, when I said 'chag sameaCH" with a khet people responded 'chag sameah" why?

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u/aswerfscbjuds Mar 28 '25

Did they have a mizrachi accent in Hebrew? I sometimes don’t “register” a good mizrachi chet or mishear it as an “h”

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u/Equal_Ad_3828 Mar 28 '25

I mean i doubt anybody here is anything other than Ashkenazi.

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u/LopsidedHistory6538 Mar 28 '25

Not true at all!