Boston Accent

1. Someone with a Boston accent would pronounce "keeper" KEE-puh.

2. Jews refer to the traditional "skull cap" by its Hebrew name Kippah, which has the same pronunciation.

3. Most non-Jews only know its Yiddish name, yarmulke (pron. YAH-muh-kuh).

for the muslim guys

us muslims also use a skull cap traditionally

we call it a Taqiya or a Kufi

One of the things I studied in college and graduate school was linguistics--the science of how language operates.

Certain sounds are related because they are produced in the same part of the mouth--for instance s and z, d and t.

P and F are also related. P is a "stop", meaning the air path is momentarily closed and F is a fricative, meaning the air path is restricted but not totally stopped.

Also, vowels routinely morph.

So K-[vowel]-F-[vowel] in Arabic and K-[vowel]-P-[vowel] in Hebrew would be because they are related. Like Aramaic, Syriac, and Akkadian, both are Semitic languages descended from a common source language.

yeah