Reply To: Havara or Havoroh

Thanks for all the input. So I have another question.
When I was growing up (a few decades ago), the typical American yeshiva pronunciation was to pronounce the cholam as an “oh”. Over the years, I am hearing that many yeshivas now teach to pronounce a cholam as an “oy”, so they’d say toy-rah and not to-rah.

I understand that location and language influences language, so that explains the differences in chasidish, litvish, sefardi pronunciations, etc.

In modern day America, the language hasn’t’ changed (always been English), so I wouldn’t expect any evolution in the pronunciation we typically hear. But that’s not the case. I know many cases where the older generation would say to-rah but the children learned toy-rah, even in the same yeshivos the parents went to.

Where did this shift come from?