Query re: Medvedev pronunciation

[Donna Griesenbeck]

Dear Colleagues,

I'm posting this message on behalf of William Safire's research 
assistant; please reply directly to her if you wish to weigh in.

Thanks,

Donna Griesenbeck

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Hi,

My name is Juliet Mohnkern and I am William Safire's research assistant 
for On Language in the New York Times magazine.  Currently I have been 
working on finding a layman's phonetic rendering of Medvedev .

Mr. Safire has asked me to find a consensus among experts about said 
pronunciation.  In that vein, would you agree with the below phonetic 
spelling of Medvedev?

*Mid-VYE-def *

I know this spelling does not offer the precision that the IPA or other 
phonetic systems could, but we are hoping for a description that most 
readers will be able to understand.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at 
juliet.mohnkern at gmail.com <mailto:juliet.mohnkern at gmail.com>.

Thank you again,

Juliet



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Donna Griesenbeck
Student Programs Officer
Davis Center for Russian & Eurasian Studies
Harvard University

617-495-1194 (tel)
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