@rabbinathan Whoa there buddy you can't just invalidate entire categories of dialects just because you don't like'm. Haftorah of a perfectly legitimate Ashkenazi pronunciation, even if it's English transliteration is a bit confusing to the uninitiated.
"Haftorah" is also not the correct transliteration of הַפְטָרָה in Ashkenazi pronunciation. Why would one kamatz gadol have a different pronunciation from another?
That's a non-answer, but if you ever come across an actual linguistic reason for it, please let me know. I would not want to spread incorrect teachings due to my ignorance of some nuance.
@rabbinathan So the gabbaim in Givat shaul who've been handing out "aftoreh" since before the printing press was invented are just fools? It really is the case that vowel pronunciation is fluid, especially in a language that's been around as long as ours
You can say it's not your mesorah, your can say it's a funny coincidence in our countries, you can say you like it better another way, but your can't say that how a whole bunch of kasher and yosher shulgoers are maisech lefi tumam "not a thing"
Sounds interesting. I'm not familiar with the gabbaim of Givat shaul. Can you send me a link to learn about the historical dialect they use/d?
Sometimes historical mispronunciations really do endure for generations despite being demonstrably wrong. I don't care if you say Haftoro or Haftarah, but Hebrew is a language with rules.
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