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Re: Cyrillic IPA

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Wednesday, July 31, 2002, 11:40
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. -- John Cowan <jcowan@...> http://www.reutershealth.com http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz. -- Calvin, giving Newton's First Law "in his own words"