I was simply putting forward a provisional hypothesis.
I found that this explained all of Joel's list (consonants only) except for this one case. At this point we have two alternatives: one is to refine the hypothesis, perhaps along the lines which you suggest; the other is to write off occasional exceptions as due to some kind of corruption.
But my point remains, that my provisional hypothesis accounts for nearly all of the changes without requiring that Hebrew pronunciation has changed greatly since LXX times.
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