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24 July 2022
ʿAyin is a letter of the Hebrew alphabet. In Modern Israeli Hebrew, it is silent, like ʾaleph, but in ancient Hebrew represented a sound that does not exist in standard Modern Israeli Hebrew or in English. Learning the early pronunciation is left as an exercise for the reader; you're not going to get in any trouble if you just treat it as silent.
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