Dikduk experts will tell u it’s neither. Just pronounce it like your Mesorah tells you to. Historically, most linguists believe the Teimani pronounciation of Hebrew is closest to the original. They pronounce it with a sound that doesn’t appear in the English language so it’s rather difficult to type, but it sounds like something between an ‘uh’ as in ‘nut’, and ‘oo’ as in ‘boot.’ Again, it’s neither of those, but somewhere in between, and you can’t write it in English. Just do what your family does.
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