Towards Better Davening and Torah Reading

Towards better Davening and Torah Reading
l'hit-mahhh-MEI-ahhh.
And they baked the dough which they brought from Egypt into matza (cakes) which were not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not REMAIN, neither had they prepared for themselves any provision. (Sh'mot 12:39)

The word REMAIN carries the connotation of lingering. Its HEIs present interesting pronunciation challenges. The first HEI in the word is voweled with a SH'VA. The SH'VA is NACH, as all SH'VAs under a HEI are. The HEI is sounded, just like it would have a MAPIK (dot) in it. L'HIT (that's the first syllable), MAHHH (you are supposed to hear the HEI, then comes MEI (the MEM with a TZEIREI) - which gets the accent for this word), and finally a MAPIK-HEI with a PATACH G'NUVA, meaning that the PATACH is sounded before the HEI. AHHH, not HA. l'hit-mahhh-MEI-ahhh.

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