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It didn't actually happen that way. The letter ת had two pronunciations in Ancient Hebrew T and Th. This distinction was maintained in Ashkenazic Hebrew (the Hebrew used by the Jew of Europe) as T and S, but it was lost in Sefardic Hebrew (the Hebrew used by the Jews of Spain and the Middle East.

Israel uses Sefardic Hebrew today.

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