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“Why do most people pronounce the ??”? ??? like a ??”? ????? And why do most people mispronounce the ??”? ???? as a ??”? when the pronunciation “aw” traditional to the Ashkenazic and Yeminite Jews is the correct one?

And why do the Sephardim traditionally pronounce the ??”? preceding a ??? ??”? as a short ?, making the sound of words like ????????? “Tza-Ho-Ra’im”? After all, the word is the dual form of ?????? (“window,” “aperture”). Is it correct to transmute the ?????? to a ??”? ?????”

While I can’t understand your 2nd paragraph, it seems your complaint is in direct contrast to a years-long complaint of mine. You opt for the Askenaz/Yemenite version of “aw” for the ??? as opposed to the s’fardim who use “aw”, or similar, for the ???. And yet, the ??? of the ?????? makes much more sense. The ??? is a derivative of a ???? and hence ????? that it’s close to a ???? than the ???. This is implied by the ???? as well, who says a ??? is a hybrid of ??? and ???.
????? ?? that I adopted the ??? of the ??????. (But say “uh” for ???.)