@Susan There is a good chance one of those answers will eventually become this site's first Reversal Badge ("Provide an answer of +20 score to a question of -5 score") :)

What's the deal with Jim Thio anyway? He often sounds like someone trolling, but I'm not sure. Certainly asking the same question three times doesn't instill confidence in his motives.

@ThaddeusB That’s pretty much an open question. Word of the day: perseveration.

@ThaddeusB Good point, I wasn’t aware of that badge. This one deserves to stand in the running as well.

I don’t understand the qamets in וָשׁ֜וּבוּ though.

@Susan Qamets probably because waw conj precedes tone - but see GKC 104g for full discussion (and evasiveness). :)

@ThaddeusB @Susan But with only 22 out of 2,699 questions > 20 UV's (~0.8%?), don't hold your breath for any "Reversal" badge to be awarded on BH.SE any time soon!

@Davïd I think the relevant statistic would be 25 out of 5549 answers (0.45%). If we multiple that by the 9/2704 questions with -5 or less....(0.33% ==>0.0015%)...I suppose you’re right. (Of course, posts accrue votes at some approximately-but-not-quite zero-order rate. But still.)

@Davïd Hm, never heard that. Serendipitously, it appears to answer my (latent) question from this yesterday as well.

@Susan Ah, of course! I thought I could count on you for proper stats. (And getting the badge spec right....) It was a risk for me even to percentagize* 22/2699! (* potential WotD?)

@Davïd * potential WotD?: Is it in fact a W?

@Susan I'm quite sure not ... but is that a problem? OTOH, would be quasi-oxymoronic, I suppose.

@Davïd I guess not. Yesterday’s I didn’t really buy as an English word either, dictionary notwithstanding. Loan-word maybe, but not even from Hebrew, really - from Bible. So I suppose tomorrow’s could be a loan-word from the recesses of David’s telencephalon.

My email AWAD is giving me all words “borrowed” from Hebrew this week. Today’s was “behemoth” which seems to me better than “borrowed”. Appears to pre-date the KJV even.

בהמה and בהמות are two different words? Really? (<---not a real question; ignore)

@Davïd More JM nifal oddities (§ 48a). Also § 51a. Please tell me this is Accordance’s fault.

@Susan This is Accordance’s fault.

@Davïd Excellent, thanks, I'll report it and they'll fix it.

Seriously - that's bad.

@Davïd Since all three of those examples were in parts where the point is morphology....yeah. One more (very quick!) question: how do you read §? Is it like section or something?

@Susan (TERRIBLE internet here at the moment, btw.) You can check preview (obviously) before your print copy arrives. :) Meanwhile, compare this and this.

@Susan Yep.

@Davïd Thanks. Yeah, I wasn’t able to see the paradigms I needed for comparison the other day in google books. I hadn’t looked today. Knowing that I found that mistake in 3 of the paradigms and 2 of the first ~6 paragraphs I read in the text, I’m thinking it will be a considerable task to try to locate all of them.... all nifals derived from the imperfect seem to be susceptible.

@Davïd Fancy. BRITISH & WORLD ENGLISH. Naturally.