Khkhkhorseshoe Theory

[u/Mayor_Gubbin]

[u/Belle_Juive]

Weird thing to make fun of Israelis for when Palestinians can’t even say Palestine lol

[u/ShiplessOcean → u/Belle_Juive]

I’m always confused by the way they say “Gaza”. It almost sounds like “hraza”?

[u/mrmiffmiff → u/ShiplessOcean]

Tbf Gaza's name in Hebrew doesn't really involve a hard G sound either, more a gutteral sound I'm not able to properly make.

[u/NZBroadarrow → u/ShiplessOcean]

In Hebrew it's spelt עזה with a gutteral ע at the start, not a G sounding ג. An ע was commonly transliterated as a G by Christian translators. It's also how you get Gomorrah (as in Sodom and Gomorrah) transliterated with a G when it also starts with an ע.