The other day, while I was waiting for prescriptions to be filled at the pharmacy, I looked around me for interesting things to read, as I usually do. Here's one that I found. It's a detail from a small box (well, actually there were quite a few of them) on the counter. Before I even noticed the Roman letters (well, it's not exactly English, is it?), I was trying to decipher the Hebrew. First, there's גרון garon, which I knew meant "throat" (not a surprising word to see on a medicine package!). But I didn't recognize אק ache until I peaked at the words below. Finally, of course, there's פורטה forte, which is simply a transliteration of the well-known Italian word, "forte", which means "strong". So, although the literal meaning seems a little garbled (strong throat ache?!?), the bigger implication is, I guess, clear: this is strong medicine for your sore throat. I still didn't buy any! :-)
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