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There is a pithy Yiddish description for a simple matter that has been massively bungled:

"Noiach mit zibn greizen" -- [The two-letter name] Noach (נח) spelled with seven mistakes.

Does anyone know how this can actually be done?

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Interestingly (but unsurprisingly), there is a Wikipedia page about this! They give the spelling ןאוייעך, which is how the word would be transcribed into Yiddish based on sound alone.

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Phonetics plus the mistaken final ן. – WAF Dec 12 '10 at 17:50
They could have used a regular כ at the end (as in Gershon's answer), and made it 8 mistakes. "Noiach mit acht greizin" doesn't sound half as good, though. – Dave Dec 12 '10 at 18:09
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נויאהעכ or ןויאהכ

The Chof at the end is 2 mistakes - as it is instead of the Ches and if it was a Chaf it should be a Chof Sofit

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The ה and ע are just fillers, no real ignoramus would do that. :) But if you're using "end letters" already, you might as well but a Nun Sofit at the beginning. – Dave Dec 12 '10 at 3:41
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(That should be: "put" a Nun Sofit etc.) – Dave Dec 12 '10 at 3:42
-1, it wouldn't make a difference if it were a כ or a ך, because both of them are wrong. – Adam Mosheh May 22 '12 at 16:27
@AdamMosheh Yes but a כ is a double mistake: mistaken consonant and mistaken form. – Double AA♦ May 23 '12 at 13:45
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@AdamMosheh Well clearly he is following my way of counting. Yours is also an inherently consistent way of counting, but since neither is objectively better, I don't see how you can complain about his choice regarding which to use. – Double AA♦ May 25 '12 at 6:02
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