[Avodah] Accent on the Right Syllable in Krias Shema

[David Cohen]

R' Rich Wolpoe wrote:
> Dutch Sephardim did the Ayin like the French ng [as in Filet MIgnon]  or the
> Spanish n with a ~ on top [e.g. manana].  I am guessing that the
> Westernized Ashkanzim had a  simlar Ayyin,  like the ni in Onion

I was in Jerusalem this past Shabbos, and my curiosity took me to the
Italian shul, where they daven "nusach benei Romi."  The maftir
pronounced his `ayins just as RRW describes.

--D.C.