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  • #595393
    simcha613
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    Why is it that some people who speak havarah Ashkenazis pronounce a long o as a long o (Torah) and others pronounce it as if it had a yud next to it (Toyrah)? Is it actually a machlokes on what the proper way to speak havarah Ashkenazis is, or is it simply slightly different because of the countries of origin and neither is more correct than the other?

    #745508
    charliehall
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    Linguistically, neither is more correct than the other; they reflect different countries to which we have been dispersed.

    #745509
    Pashuteh Yid
    Member

    This was discussed at length in a different thread a while back. Somebody posted a very learned discussion of dikduk and concluded that the oi sound is not correct, or there would be things like dagesh’s and other vowels in places where they are not.

    #745510
    Feif Un
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    Different areas/groups have different pronunciations for different sounds. To use Torah as the example: some pronounce a cholem as “oy”, which is the same as a komatz with a yud after it. Others pronounce it as “oh”. Some Yekkes pronounce it as “ow”, like you say when you stub your toe.

    There are other sounds that differ by group. Chassidim sometimes pronounce a komatz as “oo”, while the majority pronounce it as “uh”.

    I’ve heard that the Yemenites have the closest pronunciation to what is actually the original. However, R’ Elyashiv has said that they’re all correct, for the groups that use them.

    #745511
    ✡onegoal™
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    #745512
    AinOhdMilvado
    Participant

    Are we really going to go through this with every word???

    Last time it was Kotel, Kosel, Koisel,

    now it’s Torah, Toyrah.

    Let’s not forget our Taiymani brothers, –

    if there’s no dagesh, it’s THorah!

    #745513
    stickynote
    Member

    Here we go again….

    Why do girls say O and boys say oy? like Adon Olam and boys will say Adoyn??

    girls: Torah boys: Toyrah

    why do some people say CHOOLENT and some people pronounce it Cholent?

    🙂

    #745514
    shlishi
    Member

    within havarah ashkenazis, there is the chasidisha havara and there is the litvisha havara. both are legit. in the chasidisha havara it is Toiyreh and in the litvisha havara it is Torah.

    #745515

    I imagine that its probably due to the country of origin. There is no letter “oy” in English. Just like there is no letter “oh” in Hebrew.

    #745516
    Pashuteh Yid
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    #745517
    ✡onegoal™
    Participant

    stickynote- How about koogel and kugel?

    #745518
    bpt
    Participant

    Our side of McDonald Ave = Toirah

    The other side of McDonald Ave = Torah

    (no clue how its pronounced OOT)

    #745519
    wanderingchana
    Participant

    What’s the difference between koogel and kugel?

    #745520

    Torah (the o isn’t pronounced toe and r slips off ur tounge)

    #745521
    twisted
    Participant

    More to a halachic point, what is the long daled in kriyas shma? I often hear people ending “echad ” with a shva na under the dalet (where there clearly isnt one. An easier and more accurate fulfillment of the din is to aspirate the dalet, as it is a beged kefes with out a dagesh. Aspirated dalet is one of the th or dzh sounds, and there are 19 of them in kriyas shma if you include boruch shem k’vothz malchuso l’olom voedzh. And don’t forget to watch for your soft gimmels tovs and non-dental soft pehs for consistency.

    #745522
    apushatayid
    Participant

    That would be toiroo or is that toroo, perhaps its touro? I suspect it would be best if everyone just followed their family mesora, unless you have a mesoyra or a mesoiroo, of course, it also depends on how you pronounce the reish, do you roll the r? Perhaps you do. Perhaps you dont have a reish (rhymes with race) in your alphabet, only a raish (rhymes with rice).

    #745523

    I think we can see how the auther of this part of Shabbos Daving pronounced it:

    ??????? ????? ????????? ??????

    , ??? ?????? ??????? ???????? ??

    . ?????? ?????????? ??????? ??????? ??

    , ???????? ?????????? ??? ??? ??????

    . ?????? ????? ???????? ?????? ??????

    There is a ??? under the ?

    #745524
    observanteen
    Member

    If you’re reading it with Hebrew letters, it has a vav and a cholem, which makes it Toyrah. If you read it with English letters it’s Torah. I pronounce it Toyrah.

    #745525
    apushatayid
    Participant

    If it has a cholem it is pronounced torah. if it has a choylem, it is pronounced toyrah.

    #745526
    nfgo3
    Member

    In the absence of a standardized phonetic spelling system, not to mention a standardized transliteration-spelling of Hebrew and Yiddish in Roman characters, this discussion is gibberish.

    #745527
    apushatayid
    Participant

    Is that gibberish or gibberoosh? Gibberoiysh?

    #745528
    wanderingchana
    Participant

    When I was taught Hebrew (before becoming frum) I was taught (when reading it in Hebrew) to pronounce it Torah. When I started hearing OY everywhere I thought it sounded ridiculous! (I kinda still do, actually, but I would probably say the same if I’d learned otherwise.)

    #745529
    oomis
    Participant

    has a vav and a cholem…”

    Then it is Toh – rah. The only way a cholem correctly sounds “oy” is if a yud follows the cholem. The original pronunciation is like the letter O long vowel sound. The ALSO ACCEPTED pronunciation of the cholem, has come to be “oy” in many Yeshivishe and chassidishe circles. it no longer is about what is correct, but rather what is accepted practice.

    #745530
    cb1
    Member

    Stickynote: why do some people say CHOOLENT and some people pronounce it Cholent?

    that is a very good shaileh, ill have to think about that one.

    #745531
    HaKatan
    Participant

    Regardless of whether or not it is halachicly acceptable, I cannot see how the “oy” sound can possibly be the original authentic sound for a cholam.

    1. Many people who pronounce the cholam as “oy” are not consistent in doing so and often switch back to “oh” even in the same sentence as another cholam and even more often by Hashem’s name, for some reason.

    2. Sefardim and Germanic Jews all say “Oh”, though the sound is sometimes closer to a kamatz by a Sefardic Jew and more like “ow” by a Germanic Jew. But there is no extra “yud” in there any way you slice it.

    3. That most women are taught “oh” and not “oy” is fairly indicative which is the original and which has been somehow adopted by a “yeshivish” crowd. If “oy” were the “real” sound then you would think that women would be taught to pronounce it that way, too.

    #745532

    stickynote:

    why do some people say CHOOLENT and some people pronounce it Cholent?

    This is the worst. I’ve been train her for years in the correct pronunciation of CHULENT. Needless to say it hasn’t been going very well and I’m looking into other options such as polygamy.

    Getting her to stop pronouncing the L in almond is also not going well.

    #745534
    wanderingchana
    Participant

    Derech: That would be one way to solve the shidduch crisis… (ducking and running)

    #745535
    WolfishMusings
    Participant

    girls: Torah boys: Toyrah

    I must be a girl.

    The Wolf

    #745536

    “stickynote- How about koogel and kugel?”

    Don’t you mean kugel or kigel?

    #745537
    yehudayona
    Participant

    In a certain out-of-town cheder, classes are mixed through pre-1a (it’s not so out-of-town that the call the year before 1st grade “kindergarten”). Boys and girls learn cholem. Then in 1st grade when the boys and girls are separated, the boys are instructed in the error of their ways and learn choylem.

    #745538
    veteran
    Member

    When I say it, it comes out “tay-cheh” due to my Eurpoeanishe accent.

    #745539
    nfgo3
    Member

    apushtayid: You are funny but not clever (as that term is used in British English).

    #745540
    mewho
    Participant

    to may to, to mah to; po tay to, po tah to

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