Runglish

[Wilson Gray]

And your point is what?

-Wilson

On 9/21/07, Landau, James <James.Landau at ngc.com> wrote:
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> 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/"
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