[Mesorah] Bemidbar or Bamidbar?

[Micha Berger via Mesorah]

On Sun, Jun 05, 2016 at 12:04:03PM -0400, Akiva Miller via Mesorah wrote:
: My question today is to ask the chevreh if anyone has any strong feelings
: one way or the other. Should we use the pronunciation as it is read during
: krias hatorah, or should we take the word and apply the grammatical rules
: as a standalone?

Aside from "Fequdei", there are closer parallels that are broken when
we don't undo the semichut and speak of parshios "Sheimos" or "Bahar".

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha