The Rabbi's Experiment:
Date Forms
Do you say "the fourth of July" or "July the fourth"? Similarly, in
Hebrew there are multiple date forms even once one decided to ignore years (and variant
spellings for the months). WRR use three forms:
aleph Tishrei, aleph b Tishrei, and b aleph
Tishrei.
The last form is unusual, akin to saying "on the fourth of July". And, once
we allow that, what about baleph bTishrei? There
are also aleph lTishrei and aleph shel Tishri
with a possible leading b.
-- Experiment of Bar-Hillel, Bar-Natan and Mackay
Date form |
Used by WRR |
List 1 Rank |
List 2 Rank |
D M |
Yes |
165,751 |
17 |
bD M |
Yes |
8 |
8,844 |
D bM |
Yes |
8,488 |
8,804 |
bD bM |
No |
68,478 |
429,256 |
DlM |
No |
581,777 |
274,167 |
bD lM |
No |
281,509 |
618,128 |
D shel M |
No |
711,538 |
46,468 |
bD shel M |
No |
467,761 |
135,884 |
Margoliot |
Some |
70,780 |
189,631 |
|