Differences between Russian spoken in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

[Alina Israeli]

Unfortunately, the phonetic distinctions described in Wikipedia are 
exaggerated. One should first study carefully across social groups 
(which unfortunately is not politically correct) and across the 
generations. I have always maintained that the custodian's (dvornik's) 
daughter who grew up in the same apartment building as me had a very 
different pronunciation of Russian words.

But across the same social strata there will be much less phonetic 
variation between the "two capitals".

And then of course Moscow has "valley girl" like speak, which does not 
seem to appear in St. Petersburg. I hope somebody studies it some day.

Lexically:

http://aav.ru/smile/mospit.shtml
http://aav.ru/smile/pitmos.shtml
http://www.basic.aiesecalumni.ru/dictionary_mscw.html
http://www.ladyauto.ru/index.php?mod=10&id=719

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