How to pronounce the name Habakkuk

    There is no one answer to the question. A commenter to a youtube video on this rather important subject notes that in current English, it is pronounced like this or this, not like this (a hilarious mispronunciation). The last time a fellow academic asked me the question, I refrained from telling her the original pronunciation of חבקוק (you have to have a background in comparative Semitics to discuss the matter properly), and limited myself to repeating the traditional Hebrew pronunciation, “hav-a-kook,” with the accent on “kook” (pronounced here). To which she instantly replied, “every family hav-a-kook.”