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Pizza

By Jeff A. Benner


If you can read Hebrew, you can probably sound out the word פִּיצָה and now exactly what it is. Here is a hint; it is a very popular food in America. PiY-TSaH = Pizza! Modern Hebrew uses a lot of loan words from other languages. Here are a couple of others that you may recognize. See if you can figure them out.

  1. קָפֶה
  2. שׁוֹקוֹלָד
  3. סוּפֶּרְמַרְקֶט
  4. טֶלֶפוֹן
  5. אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה
  6. וִידֵאוֹ
  7. אָבוֹקָדוֹ
  8. בָּנָנָה

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1. Kapheh/Coffee 2. Shoqolat/Chocolate 3. Supermarqet/Supermarket 4. Telephon/Telephone 5. Universiytah/University 6. Viydeyo/Video 7. Avoqado/Avocado 8. Banana/Banana
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