Scratched Tsade for April 1st?

New Hebrew letter from Dead Sea Scrolls announced in Language Academy April Fool's joke. While assumed to be a light-hearted joke, the post provides a practical solution to a sound that the current Aleph Bet doesn't cover (Jerusalem Post).

The new letter, titled a "scratched tsade," appears as a mirror image of the Hebrew letter tsade (which makes the "ts" sound) and supposedly represents the "ch" sound, which, until now, was represented by a tsade followed by an apostrophe.

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