Re: Pronouns revised and word generation

Hi,
> > Yes I do :-) In Russian, there are very few words with the long soft
> > (palatalized) [z], and only one or two are in really regular use (so it
> > seems to be fallign out), and there is only ONE minimal pair
> for soft [g].
>
> Can you tell me those words (with [z] and the minimal pair for soft
> [g]), please?
Sure.
With [Z] (sorry, a typo) - only few people nowadays pronounce "dozhd" (rain)
as [doS:'] instead of [doSt'] (though with [Z:'] in the oblique cases). Same
goes for "zazhzhet" ([he] will light), "zhuzhzhat'" (to buzz) in all
forms... Well, other words are hard to remember.
For [g'] - "gyurza" (a kind of snake) vs. well, anything with #gu- - guru,
for example.