Anglo mis-stressing

[colkitto]

What Josh Wilson is describing affects place names as well as personal names 
.....

As a minor example of the forces that led to St. Petersburg being changed to 
Petrograd .......

snippet from a dialogue in Minsk late 70's

Soviet (I forgot the name, a one-time acquaintance): Gde Vy zanimaetes?

Self:  Edinburg (as found in most dictionaries)

Soviet: A pocemu u Vasej stolicy nemeckoe nazvanie?

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