spootnik

[Paul B. Gallagher]

Valery Belyanin wrote:

> 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?

It's pretty much the norm, as another poster has said. My English-only 
dictionaries offer the two short-u pronunciations (putt, put), and some 
note the Russian pronunciation (boot) as an afterthought.

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Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
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