Chernoe kofe i jogUrt, pozhaluista!

[Elena A. Arkhipova]

Dear colleagues,
I'd like to put my two pence in the discussion.
The "yogUrt" variant is actually the first one in Russian, though the stress 
changed in regular speech very soon. But still, in the most reliable 
orthoepic dictionary (Avanesov's one) it's marked as the only one, 
"yougUrt". Noone actually pronounce it like that; this fact shows once again 
that very often a new dictionary is just a re-writed old one, with no actual 
experimental work done.
Very sad.


Elena A. Arkhipova, PhD, MBA
Chair of Department of
Russian as a Foreign Language,
Program Coordinator
Nevsky Institute of  Language and Culture
27 Bolshaya Raznochinnaya
St. Petersburg, 197110, Russia
tel./fax: +7 812 230 36 98

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul B. Gallagher" <paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM>
To: <SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 8:25 PM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Chernoe kofe i jogUrt, pozhaluista!


> Dustin Hosseini wrote:
>
>> Here is the link to the full text:
>>
>> <http://www.pravda.ru/society/01-09-2009/322376-slovar-0>
>>
>> I can understand the bit about the word 'kofe', but I think the part 
>> about
>> the word 'jogUrt' is just bizarre.
>
> I wonder if it's more prevalent in the south, where there's more exposure 
> to Turkic languages... ? AFAIK they tend to have final stress.
>
> But it certainly does sound peculiar to my ear as well.
>
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