Author: Albert Silver
Date: 06:20:09 12/17/05
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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.
Albert
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