Re: CHAT: A flat minor (was: ATTN: Pablo Flores (VIRUS WARNING))

H. S. Teoh scripsit:

> Now I know Prokofiev is [proko"fi&v] but what is the correct pronunciation
> of Shostakovich? I've always pronounced it ["SAstakovitS] but I'm known to
> be quite wrong sometimes. :-)
All my sources agree on stressing "Prokofiev" on the second syllable and
making the ending [fjEf] or [fj@f].  "Shostakovich", OTOH,
gets stressed on the third syllable.  I have no idea if this matches
Russian stress at all.

> (And it doesn't help that where I come from,
> many people pronounce Beethoven as [bi:t"huv@n] *shudder*)
Hey, it could be worse:  ['biTVv@n].

In the forties, my mother was living in Detroit and riding the streetcars
to work and back.  As a German, she was quite interested in collecting
the streetcar conductors' pronunciations of Goethe Street.  ['giti] was
most common, but [gou'iT] not unheard-of.

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