Anglo mis-stressing

[Vanchu, Anthony J. (JSC-AH)[TTI]]

> StolichNAYA  (the escape route is STOLi,  not StoLI).

>Americans seem to favor stress on -Aya; cf. SlutsKAya, ButyrsKAya, etc.



A propros StolichNAYA:  I don't know if they still do it in their ads,
but--and it was perhaps the US distributors of Stolichnaya that were
behind this--they used to give the a guide to pronounciation of the
vodka that showed the stress where we all know it shouldn't be.
Remember also that Stolichnaya was sold in the US pre-glasnost'.
Perhaps the US distributors managed to convince the Soviet side that
they would sell more vodka that way.  Or perhaps they never even
asked--or cared.

Tony

Dr. Anthony J. Vanchu
Director, JSC Language Education Center
TechTrans International, Inc.
NASA Johnson Space Center
Houston, TX
anthony.j.vanchu at nasa.gov
Phone:  (281) 483-0644
Fax:  (281) 483-4050

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