spootnik

[Sarah Hurst]

I think this kind of thing has been discussed before, but surely when a
foreign word such as "sputnik" is adopted into the English language (or vice
versa an English word into Russian, for example), the speaker is not
expected to pronounce it as it would be pronounced in the foreign language,
but however feels comfortable/becomes the convention in the native language?

Sarah Hurst

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