Re: Lukashenka (jara: Country names still needed)

 --- Andreas Johansson skrzypszy:

> I've always had a certain fondness for German transliterations of Russian,
> with all those sch's and tsch's and schtsch's ... heptagraphs rule!
>
> In Sweden, you'd see Tschaikowski as "Tjajkovskij". But my fave suedesque
> transliteration got to be "Sjukoff" - I leave it as an exercise to figure
> what name that is.
Well, I don't know anything about Swedish transcription, but it must be
marshall Zhukov you are referring to.

Russian:   Z^ukov
English:   Zhukov
German:    Shukow
Dutch:     Zjoekov
French:    Joukoff (!)

Jan

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