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ItcheSrulik
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42:A kamatz katan is supposed to be pronounced like a cholom i.e. a cholom as in ???? not a kamatz-yud as in God’s name. In practice most ashkenazim don’t bother, even serious daykanim.

The practice of transliterating a kamatz as aw comes from chazanus because in the Western musical tradition “uh” sounds are sung something like “aw”