spootnik

[Robert Orr]

I remember "spootnik" all the time when I was growing up (Scotland, not US), 
even before I took an interest in things Russian.

Maybe this is a new "spelling pronunciation"...


> 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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