Amusing debate over language in Ukraine -- and a question

[Uladzimir Katkouski]

> the tverdoe "tch"
> > (÷) at the end (or elsewhere - this sound is
> always tverdyi in Belarusian)
> > would be very different from the way Russians
> pronounce this name.
>
> Thanks. Now that you mention it, I do remember
> reading about hard /ch/
> during my linguistic education way back when, but it
> had slipped my
> mind. I would've remembered the hard /r/, though
> ("ïðýì’åð ³êòàð
> ßíóêîâ³÷").
>
> Google yielded 341 hits for
>         ÿíóêîâ³÷ site:.by
> but none at all for
>         ÿíûêîâ³÷ site:.by
> so I must assume your second "y" was a typo for "u"
> = Cyrillic ó.

Yes. That's a typo there.

Btw, if you search Google with all the different
endings in Belarusian spelling, you get about 5,500
pages:

(ßíóêîâ³÷|ßíóêîâ³÷à|ßíóêîâ³÷àì|ßíóêîâ³÷ó|ßíóêîâ³÷û)

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http://www.google.com/search?hl=be&q=%28%D0%AF%D0%BD%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%96%D1%87%7C%D0%AF%D0%BD%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%96%D1%87%D0%B0%7C%D0%AF%D0%BD%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%96%D1%87%D0%B0%D0%BC%7C%D0%AF%D0%BD%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%96%D1%87%D1%83%7C%D0%AF%D0%BD%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%96%D1%87%D1%8B%29

Kind regards,
Uladzimir Katkouski aka rydel23
http://www.rydel.net/





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