Both pronunciations are now standard.[1]
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/forte
The pronunciation for the Italian word for strong/strength is "for-tay"
Italian --> English: forte --> loud.
French --> English: forte --> strength.
In French, forte is pronounced "fort" In Italian, forte is pronounced "fortay"
In English, the pronunciation of forte depends on which language you borrowed it from. It inherits its proper pronunciation from the source language.
BTW, English --> Italian: strength --> forza.
I wouldn't say its a standard. It's more that those who do pronounce it correctly can't be bothered correcting a sea of semi-literates any longer. Dictionaries are no longer the bastion of language they once were as they now stuff in new faddish words at the drop of a hat.
Too bad they don't also have a removal process to remove them once they've had their few years of trendiness and are forgotten.
I think you have that backwards -- it would appear it's pronounced ˈfȯrt when used as a technical term of the the strong part of a sword hilt -- but not here, as it is used as a reference to a certain tools strong use-case?
The OED gives the bisyllabic pronunciation for all meanings, with a note saying that the monosyllabic pronunciation used to be used.
Yep. That's how the word was taught to me. In the US, quite a few people say it as "fort."
I just learned that recently.