spootnik

[Marc Robinson]

I agree - and the quoted [put], while closer, is still far from the Russian
original.  Spootnik is indeed closer.  It also preserves some of that
cold-war feeling with the orthographic similarity to Spook!

Marc Robinson

St. Olaf College

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Vanchu, Anthony J. (JSC-AH)[BARRIOS
TECHNOLOGY] <anthony.j.vanchu at nasa.gov> wrote:

> I'd hazard to guess that it's pretty much the norm--if people even know
> what it is anymore.
>
> Tony Vanchu
>
> Dr. Anthony J. Vanchu
> Director, JSC Language Education Center
> TechTrans International, Inc.
> NASA Johnson Space Center
> Houston, TX
> anthony.j.vanchu at nasa.gov
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 1:41 PM
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> Subject: [SEELANGS] spootnik
>
> 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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