spootnik

[Valery Belyanin]

Today while awarding medals to American scientists, pres. Obama
pronounced sputnik with [u] as in [but] (he said it twice that way).
Definitely Russians say sputnik with [U] as in [put]. It should be
said [spootnik].
How commons is this mispronunciation in US?

Valery Belyanin

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