spootnik

[Melissa Smith]

It was anti-Soviet propaganda - diminishing the accomplishment by 
making it sound like it went "putt-putt."


Paul B. Gallagher wrote:


>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.
>
>-- 
>War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
>--
>Paul B. Gallagher
>pbg translations, inc.
>"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
>http://pbg-translations.com
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Melissa T. Smith, Professor
Department of Foreign Languages and 
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Youngstown State University
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