Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 06:48:00 12/17/05
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On December 17, 2005 at 09:20:09, Albert Silver wrote: >On December 17, 2005 at 05:59:59, Tord Romstad wrote: > >>On December 16, 2005 at 20:28:34, Albert Silver wrote: >> >>>Well, don't worry about it. I only know this because a Russian friend told me, >>>and I am familiar with the Cyrilic alphabet, hence pronouncing the Y like "oo". >> >>Like "oo"? The vowel doesn't really exist in English, but in my ears it is not >>even remotely similar to the English "oo". The closest English equivalent >>would perhaps be the "i" in "bit", but even that is not very close. >> >>Tord > >I pronounced it that way because the cyrillic letter that looks like a "y" is >pronounced that way. Aha! I see. You are right, the cyrillic letter that looks like our "y" is pronounced roughly like "oo" in English. However, this is not the second letter in the name "Rybka". The second letter in "Rybka" would be the letter which looks approximately like a lowercase "b" followed by an uppercase "I" in the Russian cyrillic alphabet, or like a backwards uppercase "N" in the Ukrainian cyrillic alphabet. For a monolingual English speaker who don't want to learn any new sounds, the best way to pronounce "Rybka" would probably be "Ribka". Tord
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