Pronunciation question

[Paul B. Gallagher]

In abbreviations such as госимущество (gosimushchestvo), where an 
originally hard consonant is stuck to a "soft" vowel, does the consonant 
soften, or do we get госымущество (gosymushchestvo) like сыскать 
(syskat') and с Ываном (s Yvanom)?

TIA

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