One friend once told me it depended on the spoken language of the country. In certain parts of Europe there was no OH sound in the language (Czechoslovakia?) only an OY. So they never learned how to say the OH. In Germany, the German OH is pronounced OW, so the yekkes say Shir HamaalOWS bshuv hashem es shivas tzion…Az yimaleh schOWK pinu ulshOWnenu rina, etc.
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