more about opera: smotret' or slushat'?

[Paul B. Gallagher]

Alina Israeli wrote:

> The gender of "kofe" together with the stress in "zvonit" was one of the
> pet peeves of the purists (for over a hundred years). If not for that the
> gender would have changed long ago. No one is bothered that "pal'to" is
> neuter (and not masculine any more) or that "voron ni zharjat ni varjat" is
> no longer end-stressed (outside this rhyme).

At least to my nonnative ear, it scans better as "vorón ni zháryat ni 
váryat."

But my question is about zvonit'. I was taught zvonít', zvonyú, 
zvónish'... What's the controversy? Do some people say zvonísh'?

-- 
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--
Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
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