spootnik

[Richard Robin]

The first sputnik was launched a few days before my seventh birthday.
Everyone said SPUTnik (rhymes with Cut-Nick). I learned "spootnik" only
after I got interested in Russian a few years later. But today, I can't
imagine that anyone under 40 who doesn't have a connection either to the
Russian area or space policy (or who plays Jeopardy) who would know what
Sputnik is, no matter how it's pronounced.
-Rich Robin

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 2:58 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
> Phone:  (281) 483-0644
> Fax:  (281) 483-4050
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list
> [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Valery Belyanin
> Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 1:41 PM
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> 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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-- 
Richard M. Robin, Ph.D.
Director Russian Language Program
The George Washington University
Washington, DC 20052
202-994-7081
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