Spelling rules

[Elena A. Arkhipova]

To: Edie Furniss

The basic rule is this, yes. But there are some exceptions.
Жюри, брошюра, парашют; цыган, цыплёнок, цып-цып, цыц, на цыпочках, цыпочка.
Also we write -ы after ц for plural (огурцы) and in suffixes (белолицый).
юand я are possible after ц in foreign names (Цюрих).

As to o/e, жокей, шоколад, палаццо, скерцо are to be written with o because 
they are got from foreign languages. The only Russian root contains 
unstressed o after ц: цокот(уха), цокот(ать).

You can find all the necessary info here:
http://www.rusyaz.ru/pr/og01.html

Best regards,
Elena.


Elena A. Arkhipova, PhD, MBA
Chair of Department of
Russian as a Foreign Language,
Program Coordinator
Nevsky Institute of  Language and Culture
27 Bolshaya Raznochinnaya
St. Petersburg, 197110, Russia
tel./fax: +7 812 230 36 98

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Edie Furniss" <furnisse at GMAIL.COM>
To: <SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 7:16 AM
Subject: [SEELANGS] Spelling rules


Dear SEELANGers,

*Sorry for resending, I just saw that the Cyrillic didn't come out right on
the first email.*

I'm working on a handout on spelling rules, and have managed to utterly
confuse myself. I've seen the rules presented in a variety of forms
(8-letter, 7-letter, 5-letter/unstressed 'o', hushed). I've run into the
rule that after ц (ts) you can't write я (ya) or ю (yu) - but is this really
a spelling rule? I can't think of a time when you would need to put a я (ya)
or ю (yu) after a ц (ts) when declining or conjugating a word - maybe I'm
forgetting something?

Wouldn't the most meaningful way to present the spelling rules to students
be:

1. After г, к, х, ж, ч, ш, щ (g, k, kh, zh, ch, sh, shch) - ы, я, ю (y, ya,
yu) must be changed to и, а, у (i, a, u)

2. After ж, ч, ш, щ and ц (zh, ch, sh, shch and ts) - unstressed о (o) must
be changed to е (e)

Thank you!
Edie Furniss

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