Re: Cyrillic IPA

Peter Clark scripsit:

> *** This sound seems to vary by region. Most textbooks say "freSH CHeese" for
> the sound, although when I was in St. Petersburg, most people pronounced it
> as a long /S/.
That is indeed the St. Petersburg standard; in Moscow /StS/ was traditional,
and so it got into foreign textbooks, but I believe /S:/ is far more often
heard even there nowadays.

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