[Mesorah] shuruq pronounced like chiriq

[Mandel, Seth]

It ain't me that wrote that/T'was not I who penned that.
However, to address Micha's point: in South Eastern Europe, the u sound first changed to what is in German on Hungarian the u umlaut sound (which was used in Oberland), and then to the i sound (used in Galitzia).  This did not depend on vowel length.  The descriptive statement " I know of no one who pronounces it "bawrikh."  Those (Polak, Galitzianer, Unterland Hungarians) who pronounce the last syllable as "ee/i" pronounce the first syllable as "oo," yielding "boorikh" is therefore correct, although should be modified to "most Polaks," since there were some who would have pronounced it "bawrikh."
Micha's comment, however, may also be correct, if one modifies it to refer to the English "aw" sound, rather than referring to it as a qomatz.  A short "aw" is used by many in some situations, although not specifically to realize a qomatz, but sometimes used for a sh'wa, just as sometimes an "eh" or an "ih" sounds is used by some for a sh'wa.

Rabbi Dr. Seth Mandel

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From: Micha Berger [micha at aishdas.org]
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Subject: Re: [Mesorah] shuruq pronounced like chiriq

On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 11:50:22AM +0000, Mandel, Seth wrote:
: I know of no one who pronounces it "bawrikh."  Those (Polak, Galitzianer, Unterland Hungarians) who pronounce the last syllable as "ee/i" pronounce the first syllable as "oo," yielding "boorikh."

While back on the subject of Galitzianisher Hebrew... Some qamatzes do
remain like those of East Europeans from Poland or Litta. My leading
theory is assimilation, but it's also possible that in the original
havarah, only a qoomatz goodoil was a long /U/ and the other qomatz is
a legacy of qoomatz qootoon (and not learning diqdiq).

:-)BBii!
-Micha

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