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yitayningwut
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Ok, now I have a bone to pick with you.

That’s all fine and good that you figured out that there’s no ???? on the tes. But what is the correct nikud? Hmm.

The truth is it is a ??? ???, not a ??? ????. How is a ??? ??? pronounced? Well, for Ashkenazim there isn’t really a difference, but for Sephardim, it is pronounced the same as their ???? which is almost the same as both of our ???-es.

Now let’s think. Assuming we are using standard Artscroll, Yated etc. methods of transliteration, the nikud is transliterated Sephardi (Avraham, not Avrohom; Sarah, not Soroh). So how to transliterate ??????

Based on the above, it should be transliterated Haftorah, because it is a ??? ???, which in correct Sephardi pronunciation is pronounced “oh.”

Turns out you are just as “guilty” as the people you are ranting about.

(By the way, I think this also explains how it evolved so that people started saying haf-tow-rah.)