Runglish

[Landau, James]

I have four Russian textbooks in my home library.  How do they say the
letter in question is pronounced?
1.  as in "ash-chap"
2.  as in "fresh cheese"
3.  as in "rash choice"
4.  "the consonant is pronounced in accordance with the standard Moscow
pronunciation as a long (i.e. double) /sh/.  Unlike the ordinary [/sh/
consonant] it is always soft [palatalized].  In Leningrad, [the
consonant] is pronounced as a soft /sh tsh/"

James A. Landau
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