Eich Omrim 'cinnamon?'

[Turkey]

Como se dice "cinnamon?" The first letter in 'cinnamon' can be pronounced either as a sibilant...like the 'c' in 'center." But it can also be pronounced like the 'c' in 'cat.' Or the 'c' in 'would I try to _CON_ you?' The next to the last letter in 'cinnamon' is an 'o.' (even though we anglos tend to pronounce it as a 'u.'

But is there any grammatical reason that the 'c' in cinnamon _has_ to be a sibilant? And is there any reason why the 'o' has to be (mis)pronounced like a 'u?' If not, perhaps we should pronounce it with a hard 'c' and an 'o' that sounds like an 'o.'

If we do that we don't need any letter shifts, no metathesis - none of that stuff!! It just sounds _exactly_ like it does in slightly post-biblical Hebrew. Might someone with a concordance check for 'cinnamon' to see if it shows up in actual biblical Hebrew...and beyond...like maybe back beyond Babel???

(cinnamon is one of the ingredients of the Ketoret...incense...used in the Mishkan and later in the Beit haMikdash. (Tabernacle / Temple)

QiNaMOAN or Kinamon...I better use a C, not a K, huh? Anyway, it (Koof-Noon-Mem-Vav-Noon, actually) hides in plain sight! One finds Kinamon right in the middle of the recipe for the Ketoret...in a passage from the Talmud that one finds in the morning prayers.

Oh, ah, I found out what Kinamon is made of!! Tree bark!! So it looks like Mohawk people...who called people in the mountains in what's now northern New York State "Adirondacks," (bark-eaters), were just accusing them of being raisin bread lovers!! (which seems entirely reasonable to me)

אברהם בן אברהם / The Albuquerque Turkey

[IsaacMozeson]

Dear Avi the young Turk (y):
Sweet-smelling post. See the "CINANAMON" entry in the e-word.
I'm interested in that Mohawk tree bark. Do you have an Edenic link to Adirondacks? Or was I barking up the wrong tree? Best, Isaac>

[Turkey]

Aaaahhh.....Adir....WHO???? >GDR< 8-)

Yes, that was pretty bad. Which is exactly why I was compelled to do that!!

BTW, Mohawks don't admit to being wierd enough to have eaten tree bark...even hundreds of years ago...even if it _does_ taste good on raisin bread. OTOH, corn bread...a Mohawk delicacy...is kind of wierd. It's never baked. It's boiled...only! (yeah, bagels are boiled...but then they're baked)

Anyway, this was meant to distract Isaac, who asked about possible Edenic links to the term 'Adirondack.' (I don't have a clue.)

I also don't have a clue why in some posts I'm able to insert my name in my choice of orthography and in some posts all I can see is English and a bunch of x's instead of the actual letters I intended.

אברהם בן אברהם / The Albuquerque Turkey

(I just inserted my name, premumably in some sort of Unicode font and I can see it correctly as I type this.AND the preview button shows it correctly as it should appear. Let's see if it actually shows up in YOUR browser when you read this post!!)