Librarian's Lobby for November

The spelling of a word is not always an easy straight forward answer. Last Sunday someone asked about the spelling of Yerushalayim in the Hebrew Bible. 360 times the spelling is without the yod-mem but the pronunciation as if that was the spelling. This month's column examines the etymology and meaning of Yerushalayim.

This month's column, "The Spelling of Yerushalayim," may be downloaded from: http://home.earthlink.net/~ddstuhlman/crc108.pdf