Re: USAGE: syllables

Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 11:11:06PM +0400, Pavel Iosad wrote:
>
>>Well, they aren't really final, since the _vU_ or _sU_ used to form a
>>single phonetical entity which the preceding word, and there *was* a
>>weak yer in the following syllable. So it's all according to the rules:
>
>
> ??  What the heck is a "yer"?
Isn't that the Cyrillic letter that looks like a lowercase "b" followed
by an uppercase "I"?